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Episode

Dungeness, Kent.—At 8.52 on the morning of the 10th of April, 1955, the Lade coastguard reported that the motor yacht Episode, of Dundee, a houseboat of 131 tons, which had three people on board, had run aground on Camber Sands, but did not appear to be in danger. She refloated on the rising tide about noon, but her engines broke down ana she anchored. At 6.30 in the evening the owner asked if the life-boat would tow the Episode to Rye harbour, and at 9.30 the life- boat CharleS Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was moderate, there was a light westerly breeze, and it wras one hour and a half after low water. The life-boat found the Episode three quarters of a mile east of Rye harbour, towed her to the harbour, and reached her station again at 2.45 early on the llth.—Rewards to the crew, £13 19s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £20 10s..