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Margaret

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 12.14 early on the morning of the 6th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was making distress signals in the River Tay, two miles west of the railway bridge. At 12.38 the life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at high water in a light east-north-easterly wind and a calm sea. She found the cabin cruiser Margaret anchored, with five men and a small boy on board. The cabin cruiser's engine had broken down, and the life-boat took her in tow to Dundee harbour, reaching her station at 3.6. Rewards to the crew, £8 14s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 5s..