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AUGUST 13TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress a mile east of Marina look-out. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.27, and just below the Cockle Buoy found a yacht running before the wind. She was the sailing yacht Slor, bound south from Blyth. Her canvas had blown away. The two men on board were exhausted. They asked to be helped into Yarmouth. The life-boat took the yacht in tow and brought her to Yarmouth at 5.33. She reached her station again at 6.30 that morning. - Property salvage case..