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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Tern

Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 12.5 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, a small boat with two men on board was reported in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat J. G.

Graves of Sheffield was launched at 12.15 in a slight north easterly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The casualty, a converted ship's life-boat named Tern, had engine trouble and was taken in tow. The life-boat returned to her station at i o'clock..