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Mystery wreck

1 November 2011: A fouled net is quite a common problem for fishermen around our coasts, but the crew of the trawler Sally-Jane were shocked to find that their nets had snagged on a wrecked yacht. Fearing for the yacht crew’s safety, the trawlermen called the Coastguard. Lymington’s B class lifeboat Victor ‘Danny’ Lovelock and Yarmouth’s Severn class lifeboat Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) joined the Coastguard helicopter in a search. Nothing was found, and it turns out the yacht’s owners were on holiday abroad at the time their craft disappeared from her mooring in Keyhaven. Watch video at goo.gl/iY0wO.