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Jamaica

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the steam trawler Jamaica of Fleetwood, with a crew of twelve, was ashore on the north-west boulders on the south side of Lune Deeps and required help. At 6.45 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched. The weather was calm, with fog, and it was low water. The life-boat reached the trawler, and when the trawler re- floated at high water the life-boat guided her to deeper water and returned to her station, arriving at 9.20. Re- wards to the crew, £10. 3s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3. 16s..