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Diana

YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.

Holland was launched at 6.18 in a moderate northerly breeze and a choppy sea.

It was one and a half hours to low water.

The yacht Diana was found, leaking, with three people on board. The lifeboat towed the yacht into Folkestone harbour and was back at her station at 11.45 a-m-.