MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1984
NOTE TO EDITORS:
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MP'S TO MEET PRESS
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TWO LABOUR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, MR ERIC DEAKINS AND MR KENNETH EASTHAM, WILL GIVE A PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW (TUESDAY) AT 10.45 AM AT THE AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICERS' MESS, THIRD FLOOR, BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, CENTRAL.
THEY ARE VISITING HONG KONG AND WILL LEAVE TOMORROW
EVENING.
OVERDUE YACHT EXPECTED HERE TODAY ***
A YACHT, THE CRYSTAL DOLPHIN, WHICH HAD BEEN REPORTED OVERDUE FROM CEBU IN THE PHILIPPINES ON SATURDAY MORNING
ON WITH TWO UNITED STATES NATIONALS A MAN AND A WOMAN BOARD, WAS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN HEBE HAVEN, HONG KONG, THIS AFTERNOON.
A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE HAD YESTERDAY (SUNDAY) MORNING ESTABLISHED RADIO CONTACT WITH THE +CRYSTAL DOLPHIN, AND LATER SIGHTED IT IN A POSITION SOME 110 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HONG KONG, A MARINE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID,
HE SAID THAT ON RECEIPT OF A TELEPHONE CALL ON SATURDAY MORNING THAT THE YACHT HAD NOT REPORTED ARRIVAL IN HONG KONG, AN IMMEDIATE SEARCH WAS INITIATED BY THE MARITIME RESCUE CO-ORDINATION CENTRE - - MRCC OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT, TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THE VESSEL HAD ARRIVED IN HONG KONG.
*THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE WAS PUT ON IMMEDIATE ALERT AND ALL VESSELS IN THE AREA WERE INFORMED OF THE SITUATION.
+DURING THE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY (SEPTEMBER 1), A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT AND A HELICOPTER FROM THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE WERE DISPATCHED TO SEARCH FOR THE +CRYSTAL DOLPHIN+.
+AS NO TRACE OF THE +CRYSTAL DOLPHIN HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY EARLY ON SEPTEMBER 2 (SUNDAY). THE SITUATION WAS UPGRADED TO AN SOS AND THE SEARCH WAS EXPANDED.
+AT 0955 ON SEPTEMBER 2, A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE ESTABLISHED RADIO CONTACT WITH THE +CRYSTAL DOLPHIN AND AT 1020 THE AIRCRAFT SIGHTED THE YACHT IN A POSITION SOME 110 MILES SOUTH EAST OF HONG KONG.
+FURTHER RADIO CONTACT WITH THE CRYSTAL DOLPHIN+ ESTABLISHED THAT THE VESSEL WAS IN NO DANGER AND WAS PROCEEDING TO HONG KONG WHERE SHE IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE THIS (MONDAY) AFTERNOON IN HEBE HAVEN, HE SAID.
DETAILS OF THE YACHT WERE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: LENGTH WHITE HULL, SINGLE MAST, CUTTER RIG.
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