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Volare

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.40 on the evening of the 20th of June, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been seen drifting on the ebb tide past Broughty Ferry. Her crew of three were waving a white towel or shirt. At 5.54 the life-boat Mono was launched in a choppy sea. There was a gentle south-easterly breeze. The life-boat found the yacht Volare off Monifieth Bay, and two of the yacht's crew were transferred to the life-boat. The third man remained on board the yacht while she was towed to the River Tay yacht club moorings off West Ferry. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at seven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 19s..