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Marie Hendrika

YACHT POUNDED AGAINST HARBOUR WALL Dover, Kent. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Marie Hendrika was drifting into the full force of a westsouth- westerly gale in the Camber, which is a stretch of water near the eastern arm of the harbour. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at 1.36 in a moderate sea an hour and a half after high water. When the life-boat reached her, the yacht was being pounded against the harbour wall. The lifeboat succeeded in taking the yacht in tow, but the tow rope parted before the yacht was safely berthed in the western docks. The life-boat reached her moorings at 3.15..