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Helgoland

AGROUND WHILE RACING Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.14 in the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1947, a sailing yacht was seen aground one mile south-south-east of the coastguard station, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings at 4.25 in a light south-easterly breeze and smooth sea. She found the sailing yacht Helgoland, of H.M.S. Ganges, a naval training establishment at Shotley. She had a crew of twelve and had been racing. The life-boat made fast to her and when, at 6.40 in the evening, the yacht refloated, towed her to harbour and returned to her station at 8.30 that evening.—Rewards, £7 7s..