Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on service for the second time that day in a very rough sea, with a strong north-easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat made for the position given, but on reaching it the coxswain could see no sign of the yacht. A message was then received by radio-telephone that two yachts were close to the shore in St. Mildred's Bay at Westgate, and the coxswain was making for this second position when a further message was received. This stated that one of the yachts had reached harbour safely, but that the other, the yacht Eloise, which had been helped by the life-boat earlier in the day, was being blown on to the Nayland Rocks.

Darkness had now fallen, but the coxswain could see the outline of the yacht's sails against the background of the shore lights. She was in broken water thirty yards from the shore, and after the coxswain had told her crew to lower their sails the life-boat took the yacht with difficulty in tow and brought her into harbour. The life- boat reached her station at 10.15 and was again moored alongside the quay.

Rewards to the crew, £12 12s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £32 4s..