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The Keel Boat Mary Joy

DECEMBER 11TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The local fishing boats were out, a strong south-south-east wind was blowing, raising a heavy, broken sea, and the life-boat crew were standing by. At 3.23 in the afternoon the Burniston coastguard telephoned that a boat had broken down half a mile north-north-cast of Long Nab and was drifting towards Hundle Point. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 3.30, and found the keel boat Mary Joy, off Scalby Ness. The keel boat was then heading for Scarborough under her own power, and the life-boat escorted her. They arrived at 4.30.

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