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Arosita

YACHT TOWED IN Dover, Kent.—At 2.49 in the afternoon of the 28th of September, 1947, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress signals one mile south of Folkestone. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was launched at 3.20 in a light south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. She found the motor yacht Arosita broadside to the sea and rolling heavily. Her engines had broken down. Another motor vessel was standing by her. She had two men on board. The life-boat took her in tow, and after she had seen her moored in the harbour, returned to her station, arriving at 5.10.—Property Salvage Case..