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TOW FOR YACHT WITH THREE ABOARD Dungeness, Kent. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 16th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty off the power station. The life-boat Mabel E.

Holland was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a rough sea.

It was high water. The life-boat found the yacht KM, with a crew of three, broken down. She took her in tow to her station, arriving at 11.30..