CABIN CRUISER ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Margate, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Margate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser which had been kept under close observation since nine o'clock appeared to have broken down six miles north-north-west of Margate. At 11.55 the coastguard reported that he was not happy about the position of the cabin cruiser as the flooding tide and light easterly wind was driving the boat towards the Tongue Sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 12.9. At that time there was a light northerly wind and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat made for the position and when she was a quarter of a mile away the cabin cruiser Inanda, of London, got under way and made towards the life-boat. There were four people on board and her owner told the coxswain that her water pump had broken down, and although he had repaired it he was still not satisfied with the way it was working. The life- boat escorted the cabin cruiser as far as North Foreland, when her owner said that he would be able to make Ramsgate safely. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at two o'clock..