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The Sailing Boat Seagull (1)

Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The Lowestoft motor lifeboat Agnes Cross was launched at 3.7 P.M. Meanwhile five Kessingland men, all members of the late life-boat crew, had also launched, with great difficulty owing to the swell, a small motor fishing boat. They arrived first and found one man clinging to the boat's mast, and another about one hundred yards away. They rescued them and made for Lowestoft. The Lowestoft life-boat towed in the capsized boat.—Rewards: Lowestoft life-boat, £16 7s. 6d.; Kessingland shoreboat, £3 2s. 6d. and 15s. for fuel used, broken mast and fares..