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A Yacht (3)

SURVIVORS TO HOSPITAL Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.10 p.m. on i4th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Nab pilot cutter had rescued four people from a yacht which had overturned. The life-boat was required as some of the survivors were suffering from shock and exposure. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 3.16 on an ebbing tide and took the yacht in tow. Two of her crew had reboarded her. The other occupants, two girls, were taken on board the lifeboat and on reaching Bembridge at 4.40 p.m. were conveyed to hospital by ambulance..