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Solent Sedge

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1957, the Needles coastguard reported that the yacht Solent Sedge was ashore on the Shingles with a rope entangled in her propeller. The life-boat S.G.E.

put out at 6.55. There was a moderate sea, a moderate north-easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was just beginning to flood. The life-boat found the yacht with three people on board near the north-east Shingle buoy. A rope was connected, and the life-boat towed the yacht to Yarmouth harbour, arriving there at 8.40.— Property Salvage Case..