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The Train Ferry S.S. Hampton Ferry

Dover, Kent.—At 9.17 on the morn- ing of the 8th of July, 1951, during a dense fog, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that the train ferry, S.S. Hampton Ferry, of Dover, had collided with the breakwater. At 9.20 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched. The sea was smooth, with a light south-westerly breeze. She escorted the Hampton Fern/, which had damaged her bow, to dock, reach- ing her station again at 10.30.— Rewards, £-t 15.y..