Margate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor boat New Golden Spray of Margate had developed engine trouble a mile and a half south-east of Whiteness.

She was on a pleasure trip to the Goodwin Sands and had seventy-five passengers on board and a crew of three.

The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 12.57 in a fresh south-westerly wind, with achoppy sea and an ebb tide. She found the motor boat proceeding slowly on one engine, and her master informed the coxswain that he had an air lock in his engine fuel supply. He had decided to return to Margate. The life-boat escorted the boat to the pier and reached her station at 2.15.

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