CANOE HAD OVERTURNED At 10.15 a.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passing ship had reported an overturned canoe. There was a choppy sea with a gentle easterly breeze. It was one hour before low water. At 10.28 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched and with the aid of a helicopter she found a canoe south-east of Dungeness.

No one was aboard, but a message was received shortly afterwards stating that two boys had been picked up by a yacht.

The canoe was brought back to the boathouse by 1.45 p.m..