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Klaus

TOW FOR YACHT WITH FIVE ABOARD Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the llth May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Klaus, near the Goodwin Knoll buoy, had steering trouble and needed help. The coaster Keynes was standing by. There was a moderate west-southwesterly breeze with a corresponding sea. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 5.43 on an ebbing tide and came up with the Klaus, which had five people on board, at 6.20. The yacht's anchor was dragging. The coaster had left the scene before the arrival of the life-boat, and the lifeboat therefore towed the yacht to Ramsgate, reaching her station at 6.52..