TWO WERE HELPED At 8 p.m. on the same day the coxswain was told that a vessel was ashore between Dumpton and Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 8.15 taking the boarding boat with her.

There was a light southerly breeze with a smooth sea, and it was three hours before high water. Visibility was down to 50 yards because of fog. Shortly afterwards the lifeboat found the motor boat Lady Annette and escorted her safely into harbour. At 8.45 the original vessel was found 11 miles north of Ramsgate. She was the motor fishing vessel Franz Schubert with a crew of two. Two members of the life-boat crew put off in two boarding boat to see if help was needed, but this was declined.

The life-boat stood by until the vessel refloated and escorted her to Ramsgate.

The life-boat reached her moorings at 10.30..