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Solar Gipsy

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned to say a yacht was being towed by the S.S. Cora fifteen miles south-west of Portland Bill and to ask if the life-boat would take over the tow. At 12.10 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland was launched in a choppy sea with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing* The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the Cora and the yacht Solar Gipsy four miles south-west of Portland Bill. The yacht had a crew of three. The life-boat took over the tow and reached her station at 2.25.— Rewards to the crew, £8 8s..