Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a barge was flying the international code flag F, indicating she was disabled, four miles east-north-east of Margate pier. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 8.36 in a moderate west-south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat spoke the motor barge Pudge, which had a crew of two, and the master said that they were awaiting help from another of the company's barges. After the second barge had taken the Pudge in tow the life-boat escorted both vessels to a safe anchorage. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.30.

Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..