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The Bermuda-Rig Yacht Larry

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953,the Pendeen lighthouse-keeper rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that he had seen a yacht in distress off the Three Stone Oars Rocks, and at 5.30 the life-boat Susan Ashley was launch- ed. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a choppy sea. The life- boat found the ten-ton Bermuda-rig yacht Larry, with a crew of three, two miles west of the lighthouse. The skipper said that his mainsail had carried away and his auxiliary engine had broken down while bound for Highbridge. The life-boat towed the Larry to Newlyn and reached her station again at 11.35.—-Property Sal- vage Case..