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Bluemaster

Dungeness, Kent. At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Bluemaster, .and that her master wanted to land him.

At 11.25 the life-boat Mabel E.

Holland was launched in a calm sea.

There was a light easterly wind and it was high water. The life-boat reached the Bluemaster, embarked the injured man, and landed him at Dungeness at 1.20. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on the shore, £18 4s..