Margate, Kent. At 3.24 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys in a canoe were being blown out to sea by a strong south- south-westerly wind off the Neyland Rocks. There was a choppy sea, and it was high water. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched for the second time on service that day at 3.26. She reached the canoe, and the two boys, who were aged ten and eleven, and the canoe were taken on board the life-boat. One of the boys had lost a leg in a road accident during the winter and could not swim. The two boys, who were very distressed, and their canoe were landed at Margate at 3.46. The life- boat was rehoused at six o'clock.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..