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Wendy

Dover, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 6th of May, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard passed on information from the Seabrook police that a small sailing craft was drifting without lights off Seabrook. At ten o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa was launched in a moderate swell with a light westerly wind blowing. She found the yacht Wendy, of Gillingham, disabled by an engine breakdown only four hundred yards from the shore. At the request of her master, who was alone on board, the life-boat took her in tow for Dover, and when they arrived at hah0 past three in the morning the yacht was berthed in the Wellington Dock.—• Property Salvage Case..