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Mabruki

Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.40 ill the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, Lloyd's Signal Station reported that a motor yacht was in distress and drag- ging her anchor one hundred yards off the station. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 4.55 in a strong south-westerly breeze and rough sea, and found the motor yacht Mabruki, bound for Dover with a crew of five, half a mile west-by- south of the life-boat station, and only fifty yards off shore. Her engine had broken down. At the skipper's re- quest the life-boat towed her to Dover, and arrived back at her station at 12.30 the following morning.—Property Salvage Case..