Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.20 p.m. on 4th February, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a radio telephone request for assistance had been received from the hovercraft Sure which had broken down half a mile south east of the North Goodwin buoy. The hover-craft was drifting. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irving, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.30 in a moderate west north westerly wind and a slight sea. It was one hour before low water. She found the hovercraft and towed her into Ramsgate harbour, arriving back at her station at 5.7..