Margate, Kent. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel appeared to have broken down eight miles north-east of Margate. At 1.20 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a moderate sea. There was a moderate south-south-westerly wind and it was low water. The life-boat found the converted fishing boat Shikara II of London bound for Ostend with eleven people on board. Her master told the coxswain that the boat's engines had overheated, and they had been stopped to cool off. The life-boat stood by until the engines were restarted, and after giving a course for Ostend, she returned to her station, arriving at 3.45.

Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..