Margate, Kent. At 12.31 a.m. on 3rd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, situated about one mile north of Whiteness and half mile east of "Longnose" buoy, was flashing a white light. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched at 12.49, in a light northwesterly breeze and a smooth sea. It was half an hour before high water. The lifeboat found the sailing yacht Apache of Zeebrugge; towed her to a safe anchorage off Margate pier, and reached her station at 2.30 a.m..