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Buccaboo

Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 in the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1951, the East Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that the crew of three of the motor yacht Buccaboo, one of them injured, had made fast to the light- vessel in the yacht's dinghy and had asked for the life-boat. There was a very rough sea, with a moderate south-west gale blowing. At 7.45 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 was launched with a doctor on board. Meanwhile, the lightvessel had taken the three men on board. The injured man remained there, but the other two returned to their yacht in the dinghy. They started the engine, but the yacht caught fire and they jumped overboard, got into the dinghy and returned to the lightvessel. A little later the life-boat arrived, and when the doctor had attended to the injured man, she took him and the three men ashore, reaching her station again at 1.15 that afternoon. The yacht sank.—Rewards, £28 9s..