POUNDING AGAINST PIER Dover, Kent. At 7.20 a.m. on 2gth November, 1965, the owner of the yacht Sugar Creek informed the life-boat mechanic that the yacht, from which he had just swum, had broken loose from her moorings in the inner harbour and was pounding herself against the Admiralty pier. There was still one person on board.

The life-boat Southern Africa set out at 7.30 in a south-south-westerly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour before low water. The life-boat reached the Sugar Creek, saved the woman who was aboard, and towed the yacht, which had been badly damaged, to a safe place. The lifeboat was back at her station at 8.35 a.m..