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The S.S. Anversville

Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of the 9th April a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with about 200 persons on board, and was bound for the Belgian Congo. A freshS. by E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The No, 2 motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 11.40 P.M., and found the Anversville listing to port, and in danger of capsizing with the ebbing tide, as she was on the edge of a bank. She stood by all night, and at 9.5 next morning the Anversville was refloated by tugs. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.15 A.M., having been on service for over nine and a half hours.— Rewards, £32 9.y. 6d..