Dungeness, Kent. At 12.25 early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1958, the Lade coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Salome of Colchester, which was in tow of the pilot cutter Pelorus, was half full of water and her rigging was defective.

At 12.53 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a smooth sea. There were light north-easterly airs and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the yacht with one man on board. There were three feet of water in her. The cox- swain put two of his crew aboard to make fast a tow rope and to help pump out the water. The life-boat then took over the tow and reached Rye harbour at 3.15, but she was unable to enter the harbour because it was low water. The coxswain waited for the tide, and the life-boat entered the harbour at ten o'clock. She finally reached her station at 12.38. Rewards to the crew. £28 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £26 9s.