Margate, Kent - At 2.9 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a small boat with two men aboard was seen drifting off Foreness Point with her outboard motor broken down. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.25 in a gale force southwesterly wind and a very rough sea. It was four and a half hours after low water. She proceeded towards the position indicated, but a Dutch trawler signalled to her, and when she closed with the trawler the master said that he had picked up two men and a small boat. The men were wet and suffering from shock. They were taken aboard the life-boat together with their boat. The life-boat returned to Margate harbour at 4 o'clock, landed the men at Margate pier and moored theirboat in the harbour. She arrived back on station ten minutes later. A helicopter also searched for the casualty..