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There should be a small addition to the dues system, which all ships coming into the UK would have to pay. According to Captain Schanck it would be about £900 per ship call. That would fund enough for craft to be able to rescue people from the sea in a safe manner. Why they are in the sea, what they are doing there and what we do with them is nothing to do with this proposal. It is something to give the coastguard real control over everything that goes on and to give the poor old lifeboat people in Dover a little bit of rest from their very hard work.