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Dawn Flight

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 5.12 a.m.

on 3rd October, 1965, a motor yacht was reported in trouble one and a half miles north of Danger Patch. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.30 in a moderate breeze and a moderate sea, half an hour after high tide. She reached the vessel Dawn Flight at 6.10 and found the anchor cable had fouled the yacht's propeller. The life-boat took her in tow to Jubilee quay, Fleetwood, and returned to her station at 8.30 a.m..