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Lady Ursula

FISHING BOAT TOWED IN At 7.35 p.m. on 3ist August, 1965, the Prawle Point coastguard reported that the crew of two of a small boat half a mile south-west of Start Point were waving clothing and that the boat appeared to be drifting. At 7.46 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange put to sea. There was a light north-westerly wind, the sea was calm and the tide was flooding. The inshore fishing boat Lady Ursula, of Dartmouth, was found with engine trouble. The lifeboat towed her to Salcombe and returned to her station at 10.45 P-m- One of the occupants of the Lady Ursula made a donation to RNLI funds..