Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.58 p.m. on Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the East Pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties beyond Quern buoy and unable to make Ramsgate. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 7.5 in a strong south-south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht Argent broken down and took her in tow, arriving at her station at 7.37 p.m..