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Fubbs

TWO YACHTS RESCUED St. Ive», Cornwall.—At 3.27 in the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been in the neighbourhood of Cape Cornwall since early morning, had last been seen at 12.20 three and a half miles north-north-east of the cape apparently unable to reach St. Ives. At 3.40 the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched. She searched in a moderate breeze and calm sea and eventually found the yacht Fubbs, anchored close inshore on the eastern- side of Pendeen Point. Her sails were torn, she had lost one of her anchors, she was in a dangerous place and the two men on board were exhausted. Life-boatmen helped them to raise their anchor, and with one life-boatman remaining on board the yacht, the life-boat towed her to St. Ives arriving at midnight.— Rewards, £25 19s. 6d..