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Lady Betty

TWO MOTOR YACHTS BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a motor yacht in difficulties off Pcacehavcn, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2.5 in a light south- westerly wind with a slight sea. She found the motor yacht Lady Betty, of Southampton, bound for Newhaven from Littlehampton with a party of five on board, with her engine broken down, and towed her to Newhaven, arriving at four o'clock.—Rewards, £10 6*. 6d..