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Marabu

YACHT FOUND DRAGGING ANCHOR IN GALE Dover, Kent. At 9.30 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, a message was received that the yacht Marabu of the Royal Naval Sailing Association, which was sheltering in Dover harbour, was dragging her anchor. She had a crew of eleven. Two red flares were fired from the yacht, and at 9.42 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. There was a west-south-westerly gale, the sea was rough, and it was high water. The lifeboat took the yacht in tow into Wellington dock and reached her station at 10.30..