Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing boat Patricia Joan had been in collision five miles west-south-west of Dungeness. The fishing boat hadsunk and the Clarity had picked up her crew of two. One of the men needed medical attention. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched, with the second coxswain in charge, at 11.30 in a choppy sea. There was a moderate westerly wind, and it was high water.

The life-boat met the Clarity, which had anchored off Dungeness, and found that the injured man had died.

His body and that of the survivor from the Patricia Joan were transferred to the life-boat, which reached her station at 12.5. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s..