ESCORTED TO ANCHORAGE At 9 p.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a British ship Vauban of Dundee had been in collision seven miles south-west of Dungeness, and needed assistance.

The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 9.10 in a light west-southwesterly breeze and smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat escorted the ship to anchorage three miles north-east of Dungeness and then returned to her station at 12.10 a.m..