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Anglers Pride

Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.19 p.m. on 5th December, 1965, the pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was firing flares threequarters of a mile south-east of Ramsgate and was drifting as her engine had broken down. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 12.30 in a strong southwesterly gale and a very rough sea. It was four hours after high water. The lifeboat took the motor boat Anglers Pride, which had a crew of three aboard, in tow to Ramsgate Harbour, arriving at 12.55 P-m..