Ramsgate, Kent - At 1.53 p.m. on 6th June, 1967, it was learned that a boat was in difficulties off the beach and the crew were firing flares. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irzoin, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 2.1 in a moderate south south westerly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The casualty, an ex-ship's lifeboat, with one person on board had drifted close inshore and the life-boat crew realized that if they were to fire a line to her there was a danger that people on the beach might be injured. Two members of the life-boat crew were therefore transferred to a small boat to pass the tow line. After taking the boat in tow to Ramsgate the life-boat returned to her station at 2.30..