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Confide

Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.43 on the evening of the 14th of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat was overdue and the relations of the crew were becoming anxious. At 8.2 the life- boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched in a rough sea. There was a west-south-westerly wind of nearly gale force, with rain squalls, and it was high water. The life-boat met the fishing boat Confide, which had a crew of two, a mile and half west of Portrush and escorted her safely to harbour, arriving at 8.55. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the help- ers on shore, £1 16s..