Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.8 on the night of the 3rd of August, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Quern buoy. At 10.23the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight sea. A moderate south-westerly wind was blowing and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the yacht Wheatear with a crew of five aground on the Brake Sands and took her in tow to Ramsgate harbour.

At 11.11 the life-boat put to sea again to tow in the yacht Banshee, with a crew of seven, which had also grounded on the sands. She finally reached her moorings at 11.36. Property salvage case. Rewards to the helpers on shore, 10s..