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Water Gipsy

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in a rough sea with a strong breeze blowing from the south-south- west. One mile south-west of Sizewell Bank Buoy she found the sailing yacht Water Gipsy, of Ipswich, with one man in her. Her tiller had carried away. The Lucy Lasers put two life- boatmen on board and then towed her to South wold. She arrived back at her station at 5.30 that evening.—Rewards, £31 18s. Qd..