Champion and Dawn
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.57 on the evening of the 24th of April, 1957, the watchman on the east pier reported that the motor boat Champion, with a crew of two, which had gone out to help the yacht Dawn, needed help as the key on her propeller shaft had sheared. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 8.4 in a rough sea. There was a strong north east- erly breeze blowing, and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the Dawn, which had a crew of four, and the Champion near the Fairway buoy. She took both vessels in tow and arrived back at Ramsgate at 8.45. The underwriters made a gift to the crew.—Rewards to the crew, etc., £6 10s..