Margate, Kent. At 6.16 p.m. on 8th December, 1965, the coastguard informed the second coxswain that there was a small motor vessel ashore on Margate Sands.

The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 6.40 in a south westerly gale force wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the tanker Busby of London, which was a half a mile north west of the South Margate buoy, and it was decided to stand by until the vessel re-floated. The Busby re-floated on the flooding tide and the life-boat escorted the vessel to the Margate roads and then returned to her station at 12.3 a.m. the next morning..