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Yacht Saladin

Dover, Kent.—At about 12.45 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, morse signals were seen from a yacht. The night was very stormy, with a whole S.E. gale and very rough sea. While the life-boat crew were assembling a man from the cutter yacht Saladin, of Southampton, was washed ashore in a dinghy. It was on account of this man that the signals had been made. At 5.0 A.M. a yacht was seen to be dragging her anchor in a dangerous position off the rocks at the eastern end of Dover Harbour. The motor life-boat Sir William Hillary put off at 5.10 and found the yacht to be the Saladin, with three men on board. She was riding to two small anchors, having lost her bower anchor and cable." The life-boat took her to a safe anchorage in the tidal basin. She returned to moorings at 7 A.M. and found that her boarding boat had sunk. The boarding boat was recovered later in the day.— Property salvage case: Rewards for assembly, 7s. Qd..