Margate, Kent. At 10.15 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the Tongue lightvessel that a yacht was in difficulties one mile east of the lightvessel. At 10.25 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a rough sea. A south- westerly gale was blowing and it was high water. The life-boat found the yacht Joy of Ipswich two miles south- south-east of the lightvessel making little headway in the rough weather.

Her crew of three asked for a tow, and the life-boat towed the yacht to Margate, arriving at 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £12 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..