MOTOR CRUISER FIRES DISTRESS SIGNALS Dover, Kent. At one o'clock on the morning of Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the Folkestone coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been seen firing red flares half a mile south of the South Goodwin lightvessel.

Seventeen minutes later the lifeboat Southern Africa was launched in a light south-south-westerly wind and slight sea. It was low water. The Belgian naval ship Konig Albert stood by the motor cruiser Nicola until the life-boat arrived. The Nicola was towed to Dover and the life-boat returned to her station at four o'clock..