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The Steamers Fulham IV and Izgled

JANUARY 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a Steamer was ashore at Kingsdown. There was dense fog, a light S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.55 P.M. the motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched, and found that the British steamer Fulham IV, of London, and the .Jugoslav steamer Izgled, of Dubrovnik, had gone ashore on Kingsdown Reach, within a hundred and fifty yards of each other. The life-boat put a member of her crew on board each steamer. Admiralty tugs then arrived, and the naval salvage officer asked that the life-boat should stand by until high water, when attempts would be made to refloat the steamers. At 8.30 P.M. the steamers were towed off the beach, and the life-boat returned to her station at 9 P.M. - Rewards, £43 13s..