Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 5.40 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on an ebbing tide. On reaching the dinghy, which had drifted to about three miles east of the Longnose buoy, the crew of the dinghy, a man and his daughter aged 14, were taken on board the life-boat. Cold and wet, they were wrapped in blankets and given warm drinks. The dinghy, a home- made canvas boat, was also taken on board. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 7.30..