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Eutarte

Plymouth, Devon. At 11.27 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat appeared to have engine trouble two miles west- north-west of Queener Point. At 11.47 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out in a rough sea, with a southerly gale blowing and an ebb tide.

She found the fishing boat Eutarte, of Cherbourg, off Rame Head, proceeding under her own power. She escorted her into the Sound, and after the crew of the French boat had thanked the life- boat crew she returned to her moorings, arriving at 1.35. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s..