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A Yacht (1)

Worthing, Sussex. At i.io p.m. on 2gth May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized three miles east of the station.

At 1.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong north-north-easterly breeze and heavy sea. The tide was ebbing. The inshore rescue boat took the youth, who had taken the yacht out, on board. The IRB returned to her station at 4.15 p.m..