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Ceta

Dover, Kent.—At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 21st of October, 1951, the Eastern Arm Signal Station telephoned that a yacht was dragging her anchor in the harbour and driving ashore, and at 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A moderate south- westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea. Fortunately the maroons fired to call out the life-boat's crew waked the two men who were asleep in the yacht—the auxiliary yacht Ceta -—and they were able to move her to a safe anchorage. The life-boat arrived to find that she was not needed, and returned to her station at 5.30.— Rewards, £7 5s..