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Solveig

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1960, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched on exercise in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. Soon after the life-boat had left the harbour the body of a man who had gone overboard from the yacht Solveig the night before was found and recovered. Artificial respiration was applied and the oxygen resuscitation apparatus was used, but without success. A message was passed by radio-telephone for an ambulance to meet the life-boat, and the body was landed at 3.45. The exercise was then resumed. Rewards to the crew, £7; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £1 5s. 6d..