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Bolivar

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.39 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser had stopped six miles south of the harbour and might have broken down. There was a west-south-westerly wind of near gale force, a moderate sea, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 6.53 and found the cabin crusier Bolivar with her engine broken down four miles south-east of the harbour. The Bolivar had three people on board and was taken in tow to Shoreham, arriving at 8.50 p.m..