NEAR DUMPTON GAP Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.45 p.m. on i8th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles off Broadstairs was apparently having some difficulty in the fresh to near gale force south-south-westerly winds and rough seas. It was high water. Shortly afterwards the coastguard reported that a dinghy was in trouble near Dumpton Gap. At 7.58 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out and found the motorboat Mary, which had four people on board, with engine trouble one mile north-east of Ramsgate. The yacht which had first been reported proceeded on her way without assistance while the Mary was towed by the life-boat back to Ramsgate.

At 8.40 the life-boat was back on station..