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Sea Knight

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.40 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a wireless message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sigurdrinde that a yacht had been taken in tow five miles off the Galloper lightvessel. The yacht, which had a crew of two, had lost her sails. A later message was received from the tanker that she was towing the yacht very slowly towards the Sunk lightvessel. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at noon in a rough sea. There was a strong north-westerly wind with rain squalls, and it was high water. The life-boat found the tanker and yacht and after great difficulty took the yacht Sea Knight in tow to Harwich. Her crew were landed at Walton by the life-boat at 8.7. Rewards to the crew, £19 17s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 4s..