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DISASTERELEVATEDAug 18 · Aug 18, 2026, 3:46 PM

Search launched after sailboat found adrift off French island

France 24 [en]

Search operations were under way Monday evening for anyone who may have been on board a yacht found adrift off a French island. The alert was raised by a passenger aboard a Brittany Ferries vessel travelling from Portsmouth in Britain to Bilbao in Spain, who spotted the yacht apparently in distress.

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