Margate, Kent. At 11.6 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile east of Queen's buoy, and that the motor vessel Miletence was standing by unnl the life-boat arrived. A moderate south-south-westerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 11.15 the life-boat North Foreland {Civil Service No. 11) was launched on the flood tide. On reaching the position she found the auxiliary sailing yacht Iselle disabled by a rope, which had fouled her pro- peller. Her jib had been blown away, and in the heavy seas she was unmanageable.

The life-boat towed the Iselle into Ramsgate harbour, as at that state of the tide it would not have been possible to come into Margate. The Iselle and her crew of two were placed in the care of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 4.29..