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Suzanne

FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah Strachan, on temporary duty at the station, set out at 10.45 in calm weather.

Visibility was poor because of fog. An hour later the life-boat found the schooner Suzanne of Poole with a crew of four. She had no motive power and was taken in tow to Yarmouth Roads where she anchored. The life-boat reached her station at 2.30 a.m..