'Miracle' rescue for family in the Southern Ocean

11:45 PM Tue 18 May 2010 GMT

'HMS Clyde’s rescue boat reaches the yacht - photo by MoD Crown' .

The skipper of the yacht Hollinsclough which hit an iceberg in the Southern Ocean and was sinking, tells of the 'miracle' that saved him, his partner and their two teenaged children. The family, who comes from Derbyshire in England, sent a Mayday signal when the yacht started taking on water, and had suffered engine failure. They were elated to discover that there was a ship only three hundred miles from where they faced death by freezing if they had taken to their life raft. Carl Lomas, of Chelmerton, was sailing to Cape Town with partner Tracey Worth and their two ...

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