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Yacht Curlew

JULY 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. About ten in the morning a telephone call from Pegwell convalescent home reported a yacht in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. At 10.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched, and found the cutter yacht Curlew in Sandwich Bay, with two on board. She was lying in shoal water with a foul anchor. Wind and sea were increasing. Two life-boatmen went on board to help in clearing and raising the anchor, and the life-boat towed the yacht to Ramsgate, where she moored her at 11.15. - Rewards, £5 9s. 6d..