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Andy Cap

MOTOR YACHT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 12th September, 1962, the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis had just reached her moorings after an exercise when the east pier watchman reported that a yacht was burning flares off Broadstairs pier. The life-boat left her moorings at 4.10 in a strong westsouth- westerly wind and a rough sea. It was almost low water. The life-boat found the motor yacht Andy Cap with her engine broken down. The yacht, which had a crew of three, was taken in tow to Ramsgate, and the life-boat reached her station at 4.55..