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Dee Jay

Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate east-north-easterly wind and a choppy sea. She found the speed boat Dee Jay with a crew of two who were taken aboard.

The speed boat was then towed to Folkestone and the life-boat returned to her station at 12.50 a.m..