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Speedwell

JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch Rock lighthouse and Harrison Drive, and that three men had waded out at low water in an attempt to refloat her. The weather was squally with a strong N.W. wind, and a rough sea, and as the boat was on a lee shore with a rising tide the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston was launched at 10.5 A.M. She found that the men had refloated the boat, escorted her to moorings, and returned to her station, arriving at 10.55 A.M. - Rewards, £4 11s. 3d..