SAFELY TO MARGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.47 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was flashing the international distress signal one mile north of Kingsgate. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. At 6.59 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, steamed to the position and at 7.56 came up with the motor boat Jodon with two men on board.

Her engine had broken down. The motor boat was towed into Margate and the lifeboat returned to her station at 10.40..