At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale blowing. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens and the Harbour tug to proceed to her assistance. The smack was in shallow water and bumping heavily on the chalk rocks. The Life-boat with great difficulty got near enough to the smack to get the end of her trawl warp on board, and this she ran away.

The Life-boat then anchored and held the vessel from driving farther on to the rocks. Another rope was now made fast to the end of the trawl warp, and when the water had risen sufficiently for the tug to approach, she did so, and eventually picked up the rope, and at great risk to all, started to tow the smack into deeper water, and the vessel was at length taken into Harbour.

There is little doubt that, but for the prompt assistance given, this vessel and probably her crew of three hands would have been lost, for there was a very heavy sea running and breaking on the shore..