NINE TEENAGERS RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.47 p.m. on Thursday the 5th September, 1963, the coxswain received a report from the east pier watchman, that a yacht was in difficulties about two miles south of the pier. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 9.25 and within 25 minutes came up with the three-ton yacht Salopia of Ramsgate.

She had fouled her propeller. The lifeboat took the yacht, with a crew of nine teenagers on board, in tow to Ramsgate harbour. It was low water with light airs from the west and a slight sea. The lifeboat was re-moored at ten o'clock..