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Silver Queen

NOVEMBER 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.20 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the Cromer coastguard, that a boat was in distress half a mile E. by N. of Eccles, and the motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.43 P.M. A squally northerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate ground swell. The life-boat found the ex-Caister lifeboat Charles Burton, now the motor fishing boat Silver Queen, of Lowestoft, with a crew of two. Her engine had broken down and she was leaking through the stern gland. The life-boat towed her to Great Yarmouth, arriving at 3 A.M., and got back to her station at mid-day. - Property salvage case.