Margate, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of 26th April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Dutchy of Rotterdam was ashore on the rocks at Walpole Bay, with her engine broken down. It was then almost low tide and the life- boat could do nothing until after six o'clock, when the state of the tide would enable an approach to the Dutchy to be made. At 6.24, when the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, there was a moderate south-easterly wind with a moderate sea. The Dutchy was reached at 6.40, a line was put aboard the yacht and she was pulled clear of the rocks at seven o'clock. The life-boat towed the Dutchy to Ramsgate harbour and re- turned to her station, arriving at one o'clock the following morning. Because of adverse weather conditions she was not rehoused until the afternoon of the 28th April..