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Roseland

TRAWLER WAS LEAKING St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 12.15 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Roseland, which had a crew of six, was leaking badly and needed help. There was a choppy sea with a fresh south-west by westerly wind. The tide was at two hours flood. At 12.25 the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched. She reached the trawler some 12 minutes later and escorted her to St. Mary's harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at I p.m..