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Lily, of Scarborough

AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.35 and found the fishing coble Lily, of Scarborough, with her engine broken down. Another fishing boat was standing by. The L i l y had five on board. The coxswain of the life-boat handed them life-belts and towed the Lily into Scarborough, arriving back at her station at 9.30.

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