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Panaghiotis

MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.

A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground sea. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 9.12 P.M. and found the Greek steamer Panaghiotis, of Piraeus, ashore. She had a crew of twenty-four aboard, and was bound for Antwerp with a cargo of iron ore. The life-boat coxswain went on board her, and the life-boat stood by until, with the rising tide, she got off under her own power and went on her way. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M. the following morning. - Rewards, £32 5s. 6d..