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YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 3.48. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Elsquir, with a crew of three aboard. She had shipped a sea which stopped her engine, but her crew had got it working again by the time the life-boat arrived. The life-boat es- corted her over the harbour-bar, and returned to her station at 4.30. The crew of the yacht expressed their thanks.—Rewards, £4 17*. 6d..