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Salonika

Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.53 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Brake Sands three and a half miles south of Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 8.5, with the second coxswain in command, in a west-south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was low water. The life-boat came up with the motor yacht Salonika, which had a crew of nine, and found that she was in no immediate danger. With the incom- ing tide the yacht refloated, and the life-boat escorted her to Ramsgate, reaching her station at 10.21. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, 10s..