Margate, Kent. At 10.20 on the morning of the 18th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser, which he had been keeping under observation, had stoppedand that two people on board were waving frantically from the top of the wheelhouse. At 10.29, when the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.

11) was launched, the tide was ebbing and there was a fresh south-westerly wind with a moderate sea. The life-boat made for the position given and found the yacht Impulsive with three men and a woman on board. The yacht's engine had broken down, and with the pre- vailing wind she could not make the shore. The life-boat towed the Impulsive into Margate and then returned to her station, arriving at 11.45..