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Galene

Dover, Kent. At 9.40 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1958, Lloyds signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in distress off Shakespeare Cliff. At 9.50 the life- boat Southern Africa put out in a rough sea. There was a strong south-westerly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat found the yacht Galene, which had a crew of two, with her jib fouled. She took her in tow to Dover, where she was safely berthed. The life-boat reached her moorings at 10.50. Rewards to the crew, etc., £7 5s..