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The United States Army Motor Launch M.T.392

JUNE 30TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.

At 8.18 in the evening, information was received from the Longships Lighthouse, through Land’s End Radio and the coastguard, that a boat was adrift about half a mile north-west of the Longships and might be a danger to navigation. A squally south-west wind was blowing The motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 9.39 and half an hour later found the boat close to the Brissons. She was the United States Army motor launch M.T.392, in ballast. No one was on board, and she appeared to have been abandoned in a hurry, as no private gear had been taken away. The life-boat towed her to Sennen, arriving at 11.15 that night.- Property salvage case..