Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.31 a.m. on 3rd November, 1968, the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in Sandwich bay at the entrance to the river Stour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 7.40 in a southerly gale with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. Thelife-boat found the motor boat Jim, with two people on board, aground two and a quarter miles north west of Ramsgate. She was taken in tow to Ramsgate. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.50..