Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.13 p.m. on 1st April, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yachtwas trying to enter the harbour.

While the information was being passed a red flare was fired by the yacht. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.22 in a squally west south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was four hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Jack Alma with three people aboard at 5.50.

Her engine had broken down, her main shrouds had been carried away and her anchor was fouled. The lifeboat took her in tow to Ramsgate and returned to her station at 6.30..