Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.3 on the evening of the 26th December, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Austerity of London had wirelessed that one of her crew was injured and that she wished to land him. At 7.20 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea in a strong easterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She came up with the Austerity three miles north-east of North Foreland and found that the injured man's hand had been crushed. She took him aboard and landed him at her station, where an ambulance was wait- ing, at 9.18..