Boat honours historic heroine

Apollo Bay Sailing Club members pictured with the club’s new rescue boat the Helena G, named after a woman who saved two children during a shipwreck nearly a century ago. INSET: Helena Gill.

Apollo Bay Sailing Club’s new rescue boat commemorates a heroine who drowned after saving others aboard a sinking ship nearly 90 years ago.

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