Margate, Kent. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been drifting eastwards towards the North Spit buoy and was dangerously near Margate sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She found the yacht Charmaine of Burnham aground on the sands. Her engine had broken down and her crew, who were making for Ramsgate, had lost their bearings. The coxswain, using the loud hailer, gave advice to the yacht's crew on refloating the Charmaine. The engine was repaired, and when the yacht refloated, her crew needed no further help. The coxswain had given them a course for Ramsgate, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..