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Paragon

NEAR LIGHTVESSEL Cloughey, Co. Down. At 2.25 p.m.

on loth December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Paragon was drifting near South Rock lightvessel with her engines broken down. The life-boat Constance Calverley was launched at 2.55 in a light west-south-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was half an hour before high water.

The life-boat found the Paragon two miles north by east of South Rock lightvessel with her propeller fouled by her fishing nets. She was taken in tow to Portavogie and the life-boat reached her station at 4.50..