Dover, Kent. At 5.27 on the afternoon of the 4th September, 1961. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Pack of Cards was drift- ing three miles west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 5.43 in a light east- north-easterly breeze and a slight sea.

It was two and half hours after low water. The life-boat found the yacht with no one on board and took her in tow. The life-boat reached her moorings at 7.46..