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Juffertie

TOW FOR YACHT WITH INJURED MAN ABOARD St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.3 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1963, a message was received by radiotelephone from the yacht Juffertie that her master had cut his head and needed help. At 7.40 the reserve life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a strong northeasterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was on the ebb. At 12.8 the life-boat came up with the Juffertie, which had a crew of five, thirteen miles north of Casquets lighthouse. She put a man aboard the yacht to act as helmsman and then took her in tow back to St.

Peter Port, where the injured man was put into a waiting ambulance. The life-boat reached her station at 5.15..