TOW TO RAMSGATE At 10.32 a.m. on the following day the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was making heavy weather on passage off Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 10.45 i° a southwesterly gale and a rough sea. It was almost low water. A helicopter from Mansion which was airborne reported that the yacht was not in difficulty, but at 11.20 when the life-boat found the yacht Sirius the coxswain advised her crew of three to return to Ramsgate. The yacht did so, escorted by the life-boat.

As progress was slow the yacht was later taken in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 1.20 p.m..