DISMASTED YACHT TOWED IN Margate, Kent. At 11.22 on the morning of the 28th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had been dismasted but that she was steaming ahead on her engines. The coxswain went to the coastguard lookout to confirm this and asked the coastguard to keep the yacht under observation.

At 11.40 the coastguard reported that the yacht had stopped broadside to the sea and was being driven rapidly ashore. There was a strong northeasterly breeze with a very rough sea.

The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.50 on a flooding tide. At twelve o'clock she came up with the yacht Onaway which was then about three hundred yards off shore. The rigging of the mast had fouled the propeller and the yacht was helpless. Because of the type of vessel and the confused sea off Margate it was decided to tow the yacht into Ramsgate.

This was done, and after leaving Ramsgate at 2.20 the life-boat arrived back in Margate at 3.40. It was not possible to rehouse her because of the weather, and she was left on moorings in the harbour and rehoused at 7.50 on the evening of the 30th May..