At 5.18 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an R.A.F. helicopter had been dispatched to search for a light blue two seater canoe missing between North Foreland and Deal. The canoe was last seen one mile off Guilford hotel. At 5.22 a request was made for the life-boat to join the search. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.34 in a strong south westerly breeze and a very rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat rescued one of thecanoe's two occupants three and a half miles east of North Foreland. He was exhausted and was given hot drinks and massage to revive him. The other man had been picked up by the Swedish ship Stend Baltica. The life-boat went alongside the Stena Baltica and embarked the man. She then returned to her station at 8.4..