Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an outboard motor had broken down near the Brake buoy. Her crew of three were trying to row to the shore but were making no headway. There was a moderate south- westerly wind, a slight sea and an ebbing tide. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea at 5.12 and found that the boat belonged to the Royal Marines at Deal. She towed her to Deal and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.19..