Dover, Kent. At 1.45 p.m. on 3rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local motor boat Mary Rose was in difficulty having lost her propeller one mile eastsouth- east of St. Margarets Bay. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 2 o'clock in a light north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was two hours after high water. She reached the Mary Rose at 2.30 and then towed her into Dover harbour arriving at 4 p.m..