Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west of Dungeness.

At 2.25 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a calm sea. There was a light north-easterly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat carried out a search with the help of a Shackleton aircraft and at 7.30 found the man floating face downwards. After he had been taken on board, the life-boat went alongside the tanker. Her master, on seeing the man, asked if he could be taken ashore for medical treatment. This was agreed, but the man never recovered and his body was landed at Dungeness at 10.30. The life-boat crew received a gift from the master of the tanker.

Rewards to the crew, £22. 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4..