Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 19th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with three men on board was unable to reach the har- bour. Her engine had broken down and she had drifted two miles east of the pierhead. A moderate north-north-west- erly wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 1.55 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was launched at low water.

Soon afterwards a message was passed to the life-boat that another boat with engine trouble was in difficulties off the west pier. Both boats were taken in tow by the life-boat and brought back to Ramsgate harbour. The life-boat re- turned to her station at 2.25..