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Fair Irene

MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 6.50 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that the owner of a Rye Harbour fishing boat had reported that his boat had not returned from the fishing ground. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor lifeboat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 7.10 and found the motor fishing boat Fair Irene at anchor about a mile and a half westsouth- west of Dungeness. She had run out of fuel. The life-boat towed her to Rye Harbour and reached her station again at 11.45 that night. - Rewards, £33 4s. 6d..