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Beach Belle (1)

Dover, Kent.—At 1.21 on the after- noon of the 15th of December, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat needed help one mile south-west of Dover. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 1.35 in a very rough sea, with a fresh north-easterly wind blow- ing and a flooding tide. She found the motor boat Beach Belle, with a boat- man and six anglers on board, two miles south-west of Dover. The motor boat's engine had broken down, andshe was shipping a lot of water. The six anglers were taken on board the life-boat and the Beach Belle, with the boatman still on board her, towed into harbour. The life-boat reached her moorings at 3.15. Rewards to the crew, etc., £7 15s..