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Gazeka

Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.45 P.M. on the 24th July a telephone call was received from the owner of the motor yacht Gazeka, of London, who had come ashore from his yacht, which was lying off Blakeney -Point without a rudder and with her engine disabled. He wanted a motor boat to go out to tow the yacht in, but as this could not be arranged, the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 7.30 P.M., with the second coxswain in charge. At this time there was a heavy thunderstorm, with a variable westerly wind and moderate sea. Thelife-boat reached the Gazeka at 8.40 P.M., took her in tow, and brought her and the six people on board to Wells Harbour, arriving at 10.45 P.M.

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