GERMAN COASTER AIDED At 1.34 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German coaster Dorothea Weber appeared to be in difficulties off the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a storm force wind from the southwest with a very rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, left at 3.15 and found the Dorothea Weber six miles east of the North Goodwin lightvessel.

The life-boat escorted the vessel to Margate Roads where she anchored. The lifeboat returned to her station at five o'clock..