Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.56 on the evening of the of 20th September, 1960, the watchman the on east pier told the coxswain that a small vessel had been burning flares near the no. 3 buoy.

The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was launched at 6.5 in a north-westerly gale and a rough sea. It was low water.

The life-boat found the yacht Spray aground on Brake Sands with her sails carried away and her rudder lost. The only man aboard her was exhausted.

The life-boat towed the yacht into Ramsgate harbour and returned to her moorings at 7.20. Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, 10s..