DRIFTING TO DEATH
Seven Londoners, forced to abandon. their sinking steajn yacht and take: to a rowing boat, \yere rescued witb'.n fifty yards of breakers -which me&at almost certain death.' Captain and Mrs. Leslie Sew'ell left' Ryde, Isle :'of Wight, early on a recent morning in their steam yacht the Livonia with a crew of five. Soon afterwards their engines failed, and heavy peas began to forcu water into the boat The anchor was dropped outside Chichester harbour bar, but as the yacht became more and more waterlogged they were forced to cut the cable and eventually look to a small boat. In* this they were blown towards Wittering Sands and were within fifty yards of the breakers, which would almost certainly have upset them. Mr. E. H. Sparkes and one other man, Mr. Frost, jun., managed to transfer them to a motor launch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 6
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144DRIFTING TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 6
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