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Tom Paul

Workington, Cumberland. At 4.30 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed by a pilot that the pilot boat had not returned to harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 8.30 in a calm sea. There was a light north-easterly wind and the tide was flooding. The life-boat began to search an area eight miles south-west of Workington, but the pilot boat, which had a crew of two, was found by the Whitehaven trawler Tom Paul approximately eleven miles south-west of Workington. Her engine had broken down. While she was in tow of the trawler the pilot boat's bollard was pulled out of her, and the life-boat took over the tow after the crew of the pilot boat had been transferred to the life-boat and two members of the life- boat crew had gone aboard the pilot boat. The life-boat reached her station at 1.5. Rewards to the crew, £19 10s..