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The Hartlepool Yacht Kittiwake

Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby. At half-past two the yacht was lost to view and when the life-boat found her again, with the help of binoculars she saw that she was in difficulties. She went to her help, came up with her five miles out from Marske, and found that she had been capsized by a gust of wind and that her crew of two were clinging to her keel. The life-boat rescued them, righted their yacht and towed her in, arriving at 4.15.—Rewards, £10 12$..