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Lady Lundy

TOWED IN At 8.28 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Lady Lundy had called for assistance by radiotelephony through North Foreland radio station. She was approximately four miles south-east of Dover Harbour. There was a gentle north-westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was three and a half hours before high water. The life-boat Southern Africa launched at 8.50 a.m.

and soon came up with the Lady Lundy, which had engine trouble. The Lady Lundy was taken in tow and brought safely back to Dover Harbour at 10.45 a-m-.