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YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break up if she remained there until the tide ebbed. The motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was launched at nine o'clock in a moderate to fresh southerly breeze, with squalls and a slight sea. She found the auxiliary yacht Easting, with only her owner on board, and her tiller broken. Two life-boatmen went on board her and the life-boat towed her to Mixtow Reach, arriving back at her station at 2.40 the following morning.—- Property Salvage Case..