Ramsgate, Kent - At 6.3 p.m. on 12th June, 1968, while the life-boat was on exercise, the coastguard informed the crew that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis went to the scene, rescued the three people, and with the sailing dinghy in tow returned to her station at 6.39. There was a fresh north north easterly wind with a moderate sea.

It was low water..