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Yacht Cachalot

Dover, Kent.—At 2 P.M. on the llth September the cutter yacht Cachalot, of Ipswich, was seen to be driving towards the breakwater. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the Cachalot was in danger of going on the breakwater, where she would have broken up. The lifeboat's motor boarding-boat William Myatt put off at 2.10 P.M., manned by the four whole-time men. She found that the Cachalot had been left with only a kedge anchor out, and thishad become unstocked. No one was on board. The motor boat towed the Cachalot to a safe anchorage, and returned to the life-boat station at 3 P.M.

—Property Salvage Case..