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Mary II

DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the police had reported a cabin cruiser adrift in the river Humber, but it was believed there was no one aboard her. The coxswain superintendent asked the coastguard to make further enquiries and a message was later received from the owner of the cabin cruiser, who was ashore, asking if the life-boat would tow his boat to Grimsby. At 8.45 the lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched in a moderate south-westerly wind and a slight sea. It was an hour and a half before low water. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Mary II of Cleethorpes drifting three and a half miles southeast of Spurn Point. She took her in tow to Grimsby and reached her station at 11.45..