Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor yacht had broken down just off the Brake sands. There was no wind and the sea was smooth.

At 10.18 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put off on a flooding tide. On reaching the position given the life- boat found the motor yacht Sandra with her engine broken down and drifting. She towed the Sandra to Ramsgate and reached her station at 10.40..