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The Motor skiff Rosslyn

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3.15 p.m. on yth July, 1965, a member of the IRB crew was told that a motor skiff carrying two people was in difficulties half a mile north of St. Ives Pier Head. At 3.15 the IRB launched in a northerly breeze and came up with the motor skiff Rosslyn whose engine had broken down. The crew were taken on board the IRB and with the skiff in tow she returned to her station at 3.50 p.m..