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True Vine, of Fraserburgh

OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 12.10. She found the steam drifter True Vine, of Fraserburgh, aground east-north-east of St. Nicholas Buoy. The coxswain went on board at the request of the skipper and gave him advice. At low water the trawler passed a rope to the life-boat, which pulled the drifter’s bow round, and after working her engine and manoeuvring for a time, the True Vine, still in tow of the lifeboat, refloated. The life-boat piloted her to the harbour and arrived back at her station at 4.45 that afternoon. - Property salvage case..