Dungeness, Kent. At 8.20 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, thehonorary secretary received a message from the observation post at the range at Lydd that a small cabin cruiser was burning red flares a mile off Jury Gap.

There was a moderate south-westerly wind with a corresponding sea, and it was low water. At 8.32 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on tem- porary duty at the station, was launched. She reached Jury Gap but found nothing, and a message was then received that there was a boat of the same description close inshore making towards Rye. The life-boat made for the shore but could not come close enough to contact the boat. Shortly afterwards a boat came out from the shore. She was the cabin cruiser Dorothy of Poole, and it was her crew who had been burning flares. She had apparently been unable to find shelter, and she now followed the life-boat into Dungeness roads. After a time the Dorothy ran ashore and the life-boat stood by her until the arrival of the coastguard life-saving apparatus team.

The life-boat then returned to her station at 12.30. The Dorothy was towed into Rye Harbour on the next tide..