Margate, Kent. At 12.41 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized about half a mile off shore at Minnis Bay, Birchington. At 12.55 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched. There was a fresh west-south-westerly wind with heavy rain showers. The sea was choppy and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy, but there was no sign of her crew. The search for the crew continued until it was learnt by radio-telephone that the two occupants of the dinghy had been rescued by a small boat, which had put out from Birchington. The sailing dinghy was taken in tow and handed over to the local sailing club, and the life-boat reached her station at 3.15.

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