Margate, Kent - At 4.43 p.m. on 26th September, 1967, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller six miles north east of the North Foreland lighthouse. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a moderate sea.

The tide was flooding. When the lifeboat arrived she found that the fishing boat Gay Star of Castletown with four people on boad had drifted eight miles from North Foreland.

The life-boat took the Gay Star in tow to Ramsgate harbour. The lifeboat returned to her station at 10.30.During the service a watch was kept following a report of flares being fired off Dumpton Gap. No vessel was found in distress..