Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.14 p.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat in Pegwell bay needed assistance. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.25 in a fresh westerly breeze with a slight sea.

The tide was ebbing. She found the cabin cruiser Folly aground in Pegwell bay. A helicopter had taken two men off and one man was still aboard. The life-boat returned to her station, collected the boarding boat, and stood by until it was possible to use the boarding boat to pass a line to the cabin cruiser. The cruiser was taken in tow to Ramsgate, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.10..