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Windlatter

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 4.15 in the afternoon, on the 14th of August, 1950, the Lytham barge re- ported that a boat from the yacht Windlatter, of Preston, had told them the yacht was ashore. At 4.50 the life-boat Dunleary left her moorings in a slight sea with a fresh westerly breeze blowing, and found the Windlatter on Salters Bank. The boat had taken off her crew of five, and so the life-boat escorted her to the barge. Later on they decided to refloat the yacht, and at seven that evening the life-boat left the barge, towed the Windlatter clear, secured her to the barge, and reached her station again at 11.30.—Rewards, £13 17s..