Family rescued from Oyster after hitting iceberg in South Atlantic

8:12 PM Sun 9 May 2010 GMT

'Yacht Hollinsclough route from the South American mainland to their position when rescued' .

In a rescue that showed again how important it was for minders to route teen sailors Jessica Watson and Abby Sunderland around the Horn in full summer, an English family of four have been rescued after their yacht hit an iceberg and sank in the south Atlantic. The Falklands protection warship HMS Clyde sailed 200 miles to rescue them after their distress call was picked up thousands of miles away by the Falmouth coastguard in the UK. Travelling late in the season, their yacht, Yacht Hollinsclough, a cutter rigged sloop by the well known yacht brand of Oyster, was in ...

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