HELICOPTER PICKS THREE MEN OUT OF SEA Margate, Kent. At 2.14 on the afternoon of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-west of Kingsgate coastguard look-out and that three men were in the water. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 2.25 in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after high water. While making for the position the coxswain saw a helicopter hauling the men out of the water, and the pilot informed the coxswain that he would take them to Margate. The life-boat picked up the dinghy and returned to her station, which she reached at 3.30. The three men who had been picked up by the helicopter were detained in hospital suffering from shock and exposure..