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New Britannic

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.53 on the morning of the 23rd of June, 1957, the east pier watchman telephoned that the motor boat New Britannic appeared to be disabled in Pegwell Bay. At 12.1 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight sea. There was a gentle north-easterly breeze blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the New Britan- nic, which had twenty-eight people on board. The motor boat had engine trouble, and the life-boat took her in tow to Ramsgate harbour, arriving there at 12.37.—Rewards to the crew, etc., £7 10*..