Dungeness, Kent. At 10.5 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coxswain heard that the yacht Dhow Moa was having difficulty in making Folkestone harbour because of bad weather and had been aground on two occasions. The life-boat Mabel E.

Holland was launched at 10.28 in a near gale from the west-south-west and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found the yacht one mile and a half north-north-east of the life-boat station with a crew of three aboard. She was taken in tow to Folkestone and the life-boat reached her station at 4.40 p.m..