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A SEARCH for two teenagers who vanished after they tried to swim ashore when their small boat capsized was called off yesterday after rescuers found no trace of them or their boat. Coastguards believe the boat may have tipped over as Stephen Smith, 18, and Nicholas Pelling, 17, of South Shields, tried to haul a fishing net or lobster pot to the surface.

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