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Roma II

Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 10th of August, 1950, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat in distress off Broome Hill, Camber • Sands. Ten minutes later the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a calm sea, with a fresh south-westerly breeze. She found the yacht Roma II, disabled by an engine breakdown, dragging her anchor about fifty yards off shore with four people on board. At the request of the owner the life-boat towed the yacht into deeper water and anchored her, and then returned to her station, arriving at 12.50.—Rewards, £25..