FRENCH CUTTER ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 on the evening of the 1st September, 1962, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Brake sands and was firing distress flares. At ten o'clock the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings in a light easterly breeze and a moderate sea. It was low water. The life-boat found the French cutter Naia with six people on board. She stood by until the Naia refloated and then escorted her safely into harbour. The life-boat reached her station at 10.40..