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June-Lippet

FISHING BOAT ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Plymouth, Devon. At 12.46 on the afternoon of the 15th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat June- Lippet, which was returning to Plymouth from a fishing trip, was making heavy weather in a northerly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. The position of the fishing boat was then three miles west of Rame Head. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings at one o'clock at high water. She came up with the June- Lippet, which had a crew of four, one mile south-west of Rame Head and escorted her safely into Plymouth Sound and to the Barbican. The lifeboat reached her station at three o'clock..