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Nordale

NOVEMBER 23RD. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 10.40 in the morning the Walney coastguard telephoned that a steam trawler was aground about one and a half miles W.S.W. of the coastguard station, and at 10.50 A.M. the motor life-boat N.T. was launched. A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with a rather heavy swell. The life-boat found the steam trawler Nordale, of Scarborough, aground. She had a crew of fifteen, and was laden with fish for Fleetwood. The life-boat towed her off and escorted her as far as the Wyre Light. She then returned to her station, arriving at 2.15 P.M. - Property salvage case..