Life-boat 44-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 2.41 p.m. on 17th August, 1969, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that the catamaran Dandelion had capsized between Nos. 8 and 9 jetties of the Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain. The life-boat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, had already slipped her moorings on exercise at 2.30 in a moderate north westerly breeze. She came up with the Dandelion at 3 o'clock and took the catamaran's only crew member on board. After the catamaran had been righted with difficulty the crewman was reembarked and the catamaran was taken in tow to her berth on the Isle of Sheppey. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 5.15..