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Angela

TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down near Broadstairs Knoll buoy, and that the Wheelsman had asked if the lifeboat would meet her off Gull buoy and take over the tow. At 10.20 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings and made for the buoy in a light breeze and a slight sea. It was low water. At eleven o'clock she came up with the motor vessel. She took the Angela in tow and brought her to Ramsgate, arriving at 11.35. The owner of the Angela made a gift to the life-boat crew..