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Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.50 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, distress flares were seen coming from the auxiliary yacht Fargo off the West Holm buoy. At 6.3 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded in a westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing strongly. The casualty, which had a blocked fuel pump and could not make harbour under sail, was towed into Lowestoft by the life-boat. The yacht had three people on board. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 7.26..