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A Yacht (4)

Worthing, Sussex. At 3.45 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the beach inspector's office informed a crew member that a yacht had capsized half a mile off west Worthing. Less than four minutes later the inshore rescue boat was launched in a fresh south-westerly breeze and choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The inshore rescue boat found the yacht,, which had been righted but was water- logged, and embarked the two people in her. The yacht was then taken in tow and beached off the yacht club. The inshore rescue boat returned to her station at 4.50..