FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding tide. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. if) launched at 7.55 and soon reached the cabin cruiser White Cloud of Burnham. A line was fired across the craft, a tow rope was made fast, and the boat was pulled off the sands. The engine of the White Cloud had failed and the life-boat towed her into Margate harbour, arriving at 10.48. On account of the weather and tide, the lifeboat was left on moorings in the harbour for the night and rehoused at 2.45 p.m.

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