Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.1 on the morn- ing of the 8th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, the Ally Sloper, with two men aboard, was in difficulties three miles east of the North Goodwin light- vessel. At 9.15, when the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out, there was a fresh south-westerly wind with a rough sea. The tide was half ebb. The survey ship H.M.S. Enterprise also went to the yacht's assistance and took her in tow. At 10.22 the tow was transferred to the life-boat, which took the Ally Sloper to Ramsgate, arriving at 12.30..