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Bullfrog

The following account of a service by the Lizard, Cornwall, life-boat on the 30th June, 1961, was received too late for inclusion in the September number of the Life-boat: At 11.23 in the morning the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared in difficulties off the Lizard Stag rocks. At 11.45 the life- boat Duke of York was launched in a light south-easterly wind and a calm sea.

It was an hour and a half before low water. The life-boat found the yacht Bullfrog-of Teignmouth with her engine broken down. The yacht, which had a crew of two, was taken in tow to Fal- mouth, and the life-boat reached her station at 8.10. The two rescued people made a gift to the life-boat crew and a donation to the branch funds..