TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor vessel Carmen of Panama eight miles east of South Foreland. No help was asked for at that time, but at 3.22 it was reported that the Carmen had sunk. Twenty-one men from the Carmen were aboard the Sadikzade, but two men were missing. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 3.53 in a light south-westerly wind and a smooth sea.

It was high water and there was dense fog. A search for the missing men was carried out, in which the Walmer lifeboat, the German life-boat Georg Breusing, which was on a courtesy visit to Dover following the International Life-boat Conference, and a helicopter co-operated but found nothing. After searching for seven hours the Dover life-boat went alongside the Turkish vessel, and the twenty-one survivors from the Carmen were transferred to her and landed at Dover. The life-boat reached her station at 1.30..