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Yacht Roulette

Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 12th April the Hoy lake Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was called out to the assistance of a small yawl yacht, the Roulette, of Hoylake, which became unmanageable when off Dover Point. The W.N.W. wind was very squally and the sea rough, and although the anchor was let go it would not hold and the yacht dragged into broken water. The Life-boat was ex- peditiously launched and succeeded in rescuing the two occupants of the yacht in heavy surf, the yacht also being towed into safety..