DRIFTING TO DEATH
Seven Londoners, forced to abandon their sinking steam yacht and take to a rowing boat, were rescued within 50 yards of breakers which meant almost certain death. Captain and Mrs Leslie Sewell 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 seas began to force 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 took to a small boat. In this they were blown towards Wittering Sands and were within 50 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 13
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144DRIFTING TO DEATH Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 13
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