SEVEN ON BOARD At 3.16 p.m. on 2ist September, 1964, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yawl appeared to have engine trouble and was drifting in the moderate seas and gentle south-easterly breeze near Quern buoy. At 3.23, when the tide was ebbing, the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. The yawl Zulu with a crew of seven was found, out of control, and towed into Ramsgate. The life-boat reached her station at 4 p.m..