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Peggy

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1959, a message reached the life-boat- house that cries for help had been heard from a half-decked fishing boat ashore on the beach a quarter of a mile west of the life-boat station. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a rough sea. There was a strong south-westerly wind and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Peggy of Fleetwood, rescued her crew of two, and returned to her station, arriving at 11.20. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..