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Arde Graft

TRIMARAN CAPSIZED At 8.50 a.m. on yth June, 1964, several people informed the honorary secretary that a trimaran had capsized on the harbour bar. It was almost low water; there was a fresh breeze with a rough sea. At 9.15 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange set out for the bar where the trimaran Arde Graft had capsized. Three members of the crew were rescued, the trimaran was taken in tow, and the life-boat reached her station at 10.15..