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Pandora

Dover, Kent.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 16th of June, 1956, the Sand- gate coastguard passed on a message from the Lloyds signal station that the yacht Pandora, of Ghent, Belgium, had struck a breakwater, and that one of her crew of two was in the sea. The life-boat coxswain at once sent his own motor boat, the King John II, and the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 9.45. The sea was rough, there was a strong southerly wind, and the tide was ebbing. The King John II picked the man up and towed the yacht into the harbour. The life-boat stood by until the Pandora was safely moored and then returned to her station, arriving at 10.30.—Rewards to the crew, etc., £4 5s..