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Cheviot Wind

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser needed help a mile and a half south-east-by- south of the Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 9.10 in a light east-north- easterly wind and a slight sea. The tide was half flood. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Cheviot Wind of Great Yarmouth, which had a crew of four, anchored. She had lost her rudder, and the life-boat took her in tow to Brightlingsea, reaching her station at two o'clock. Property salvage case..