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Doris, of Shoreham

JUNE 27TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About four in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a man was waving a red flag on a yacht which was dragging her anchor off Holland Sluice. The motor lifeboat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 4.25 in a fresh south-westerly breeze, with a moderately rough sea. She found the yacht to be the Doris, of Shoreham, bound from Dover to Lowestoft with three people on board. Her engine had broken down. Three life-boatmen went on board and the life-boat towed her to Harwich. She reached her station again at 9.30 that evening. - Property salvage case..