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A Yacht (4)

Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the Outer Binks. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched in a moderate swell with a gentle east-north-easterly wind blow- ing and a flood tide. She found the yacht Witez II with a crew of six aground and stood by until she re- floated. She then escorted the yacht into the Humber. The life-boat reached her station at 6.30. Paid permanent crew..