Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.29 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was firing red flares a mile and a half east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was nearly low water. At 10.42 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. She came up with the motor yacht Vivien Jean, which had broken down, three miles east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. The yacht's crew of four were taken on board the life-boat, and two members of the life- boat's crew boarded the Vivien Jean, which was then taken in tow by the life- boat and brought to Ramsgate harbour.

The life-boat reached her station at 1.28..