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Uncle Tom

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.36 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that the local motor boat Uncle Tom, which had a crew of three, had lost her bearings and had made fast to the Elbow buoy. At 4.48 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight sea, with a light breeze blowing and a flooding tide, and made for the position. Fog reduced visibility to about a quarter of a mile, but the life-boat found the Uncle Tom and towed her to Ramsgate, arriving at 6.20.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; reward to the helper on shore, 10s. 6d..