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A Small Open Pulling Boat

MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The life-boat found the small boat with two men in her. They were Dutchmen, who had belonged to the Dutch Navy and had slipped out of Holland in the early morning of the 28th April to come to England. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.20 P.M., but she had to lie off for two hours, owing to the heavy swell, before she could be beached. - Rewards, £14 3s..