BLOWN OUT TO SEA At 2.34 p.m. on the 24th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat with a crew of three was being blown out to sea. There was a near gale from the south-southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. //) launched at 2.50 and she found a helicopter hovering over the dinghy Corgi II whose outboard engine had broken down. The three men in the dinghy were very cold, wet and exhausted as they had been fishing since 6 a.m., and when the weather deteriorated they had tried to row ashore. The men were taken on board the life-boat and given rum and blankets to keep them warm. The boat was towed into the shelter of Minnis Bay about fifty yards off shore and the three men, who were by this time considerably revived and much warmer, returned to their boat and rowed ashore. After the small boat had reached shore safely the life-boat returned to her station arriving at 4.35.

The life-boat was also called out on 6th October, and 16th November, 1963..