DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 7.30 in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was an hour before low water. The life-boat found the sloop B Y109 in the tow of the German motor vessel Harle-Riff. The coxswain was asked to take over the tow, which he did, and the life-boat and sloop arrived in Dover harbour at 8.39..