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Acis

Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1960, the east pier watchman told the honor- ary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties three and a half miles off Dumpton Gap. At 2.45 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a moderate south-westerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the yacht Acis, which had a crew of two, with her engine broken down and took her in tow to Ramsgate harbour. The life-boat reached her moorings at 3.45. Re- wards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, 10s..