The North Goodwin Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings in light airs and a calm sea. It was three hours before high water. The life-boat took trie sick seaman onboard and returned to Ramsgate harbour, where he was transferred to a waiting ambulance and taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.15..