RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was dismasted. The crew of a nearby vessel helped the solo skipper by relaying his radio messages to the Coastguard. The Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Lydd was first on scene and Ramsgate lifeboat crew towed the yacht to Ramsgate Harbour.