Margate, Kent. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulties about three and a half miles north- north-west of Margate pier. At 12.16 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a fresh south-westerly wind and a rough sea.

It was low water. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy Dagon with a boy and a girl aboard. Her outboard engine had broken down and her crew were flying a shirt at the masthead as a distress signal. They were taken on board the life-boat, which then took the dinghy in tow to Margate, arriving at 12.56.

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