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Dragor Maersk

DANISH MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 6.18 on the evening of the 22nd April, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had heard on his wireless a message being passed to North Foreland radio station from a ship saying she had been in a collision south of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 6.30 in light south-westerly airs and a calm sea. It was low water. The weather was foggy, but the life-boat came up with the motor vessel Dragor Maersk of Copenhagen four and a half miles south-east of Dungeness. The vessel's master asked the coxswain to stand by until a tug arrived. When a tug had reached the scene and taken the motor vessel in tow, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 10.10..