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Allegiance

CREW TRANSFERRED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.24 a.m.

on i8th May, 1965^ the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from Ilfracombe radio station that the motor vessel Saggat had reported a fishing vessel on fire five miles south of Caldey Island.

The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 9.33 in a moderate northerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after high water. Shortly after launching the life-boat crew were informed that the Saggat had taken the crew of four of the motor vessel Allegiance on board. They were transferred to the life-boat and landed at Tenby. The life-boat reached her station at 1.30 p.m..