Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings in a gentle westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was two hours after low water. The life-boat found the motor vessel Fram of Groningen with her engine room flooded. The coxswain put some of his crew aboard to help form a bucket chain for bailing out.

The Fram was eventually taken in tow by the Dutch tug Scaldis, and the life- boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.35..