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Jezebel

FOUR PEOPLE FOUND ON BEACH St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 4th September, 1962, a bright, flashing light was seen on Jethou, and at 12.25 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea in a moderate south-westerly breeze, a choppy sea and an ebbing tide. She took a dinghy with her. Four people were found stranded on Jethou beach.

They had been returning from Herm in the speedboat Jezebel, but the boat had struck a rock off Jethou and her propeller had been damaged. Using their dinghy the life-boat crew ferried the four people to the life-boat, which returned with them to her station, arriving at 1.45..