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Penguin, of Dartmouth

MARCH 27TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a motor yacht had stopped and that a blanket was being waved from her. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 6.30 in a light breeze and a calm sea, and found the motor yacht Penguin, of Dartmouth, one mile south of the harbour. Her engine had broken down, while she was on passage from Lymington to London, but her crew had now started it again, and the life-boat escorted her towards Shoreham. Just inside the harbour entrance the engine failed again, and the life-boat towed her in. She reached her station again at 7.15. - Rewards, £18 2s. 6d..