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Fiveie

Dover, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, a local boatman reported that a motor boat was in difficulties off St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.20 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings with the second coxswain in command in a rough sea. There was a fresh westerly wind, and it was nearly high water. The life-boat found the motor boat Fiveie making towards Dover with four people on board. Her engine had broken down three times. The life-boat escorted her into harbour, reaching her station at 6.10. Rewards to the crew, £20 5s..