Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.

There was a strong south-westerly wind, a rough sea and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat made a search and found the local motor boat Canopus with a crew of seven who had been on a fishing expedition.

Her engine had broken down, so the life-boat took her in tow and returned to Ramsgate at 5.40 p.m..