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H.M.S. Lundy and her Cutters

NOVEMBER 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.2 in the afternoon a message from H.M.S.

Lundy, which was anchored off Deal, was received through the Deal coastguard, that a cutter from the Lundy, with a crew of seven, had been engaged in wreck dispersal work, and had been blown to pieces two miles south-east of Walmer. A light south-easterly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) took on board a doctor and was launched at 12.11. She went alongside the Lundy which had one of three injured survivors on board. He was transferred to the life-boat. The other two men were still in another cutter which had picked them up.

They were, the doctor said, too badly injured to be moved The life-boat towed the cutter to Walmer, where an ambulance was waiting.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 2.25. - Rewards, £15 18s..