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Clipper

Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Orlock in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Clipper of Rotterdam was aground on the Maidens off Larne. At 6.10 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put out in fine weather, with a light westerly wind blowing, a choppy sea and an ebb tide. She found the motor vessel on Straddle Rock, stood by until she refloated and then escorted her to Larne, where a member of her crew, suffering from a head injury, was landed. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.30 in the evening. Rewards to the crew, £32..