SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE At 10.55 a.m. on i3th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht which seemed to be making for Broadstairs had disappeared suddenly, presumably capsized. There was a moderate sea with a moderate to strong northeasterly breeze, and the tide was at low water. At n.io the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out and about half an hour later found the yacht Couthie 3! Miles north-east of Ramsgate bound for the Thames estuary. She was making very heavy weather, and on the coxswain's advice she altered course for Ramsgate, with the life-boat escorting her. The lifeboat returned to her station at 12.31 p.m..