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Athene

SEPTEMBER 15TH. - WESTON - SUPER MARE, SOMERSET. During the evening a man on Kilve Reach in Bridgwater Bay saw signals fired from a motor cruiser. He told the police who reported to the coastguard. The information reached the life-boat station at eight o’clock. A light west-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched at 8.47. Her coxswain correctly estimated the drift of the boat in distress and, at eleven o’clock, found her half a mile north of Inkly Point in Bridgwater Bay. She was the Athene, with three on board. They were exhausted by their prolonged efforts to restart their engine, and they had burned their last flare. A life-boatman was put on board the Athene and the life-boat towed her to moorings in the River Axe, returning to her station at one next morning. The owner made a donation to the Institution. - Rewards, £8 12s.