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The Motor Yawl Lily

FEBRUARY 9TH . - ABERDEEN. On returning to port at 6.12 P.M. the motor yawl Olive reported that she had spent an hour searching for the motor yawl Lily, of Aberdeen, which had been last seen disabled off the mouth of the River Don. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell.

The weather was cold. The No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 6.50 P.M. and found the Lily about one and a half miles N.E. of the River Don. Shetowed her in, arriving at 8.15 P.M. - Rewards, £14 11s. 6d.