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A Yacht

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.17 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Priory Bay. At 3.26 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a rough sea. A southerly gale was blowing, with an ebb tide. A helicopter also took off. At 3.41 the coastguard reported that the secretary of the Bembridge sailing club had informed him that both the occupants of the yacht had been picked up by two boats. The life-boat escorted these two boats until they were safely in harbour and reached her station at 4.10. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..