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SKIPPER HELPLESS WITH UNCONSCIOUS CREW Ramsgate, Kent.—-While returning from the fishing grounds early in the morning of the 20th of April, 1947, two members of the crew of three of the fishing boat Amorel, of Ramsgate, were overcome by fumes from a damaged exhaust pipe. The skipper was unable to leave the- wheel, as his boat was approaching harbour, so he circled round to attract, attention, and at 2.45 in the morning the motor life- boat Prudential came out. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The life-boat put three of her crew on board the Amorel and they stopped her engine. The life-boat then took her in tow and brought her into harbour at 3.45. The unconscious men were taken to hospital, where they recovered.—Rewards, £8 8s..