FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched. It was just past low water.

The life-boat found the yacht Anne about four miles south-west of the life-boat station. There were two people aboard her and her engine was broken down. She was towed to a safe mooring. The lifeboat then investigated another flare five miles south of Dungeness but after an unsuccessful search returned to her station at 2.30 a.m. A donation was made to the crew..