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Ten Ten, of Nieuwpoort

Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.5 a.m. on 16th August, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that the yacht Ten Ten was aground on the harbour bar. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.18 in a strong westerly wind with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the yacht Ten Ten of Nieuwpoort with four people on board and took her in tow to Ramsgate. She returned to her station at 12.50 a.m. The owners made a gift to the life-boat crew..