MOTOR BOAT TOW At 11.15 p.m. on 23rd November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down two to three miles north-east of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 11.35 in a moderate to strong south-south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one hour and a half after low water. The life-boat found an ex-life-boat named King John with a crew of two and took her in tow to Dover harbour, arriving at 3.15. a.m. The lifeboat then returned to her station by 6.55.

The owner made a gift to the life-boatcrew..