NOT MANAGEABLE Later the same day, a number of the life-boat crew heard a radio message broadcast from the North Foreland transmitting station stating that the motor yacht Tessa was in difficulties two miles east-south-east of the East Goodwin lightvessel.

There was a slight sea with a gentle north-westerly breeze. The tide was at low water and the yacht was plainly visible from the boathouse. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 1.2 p.m. The yacht's rudder had broken, rendering her unmanageable, so she was towed to Ramsgate. The lifeboat returned to her station at 6.40..