Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 5.35 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was aground off Stoke Saltings, west of the Isle of Grain. At 5.45 the life-boat slipped her moorings in a strong west south westerly wind with a moderate sea. The tide was flooding. The lifeboat found that the motor boat We Three had sunk, and that her owner was marooned on the island. The patrol boat Medway Leader, which was standing by, had launched a small dinghy, but due to the thick mud surrounding the island, was unable to reach the man. A memberof the life-boat crew then took the dinghy and reached the man, who was in a very distressed condition.

He was persuaded to enter the dinghy and was transferred to the life-boat.

The life-boat returned to her station at 7.30..