Deadliest Channel small boat disaster that claimed 30 lives ‘could have been avoided’

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Lives could have been saved if the French navy responded to a Mayday call and the UK coastguard continued its search, report into the November 2021 tragedy finds

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Deadliest Channel small boat disaster that claimed 30 lives ‘could have been avoided’

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