Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.

...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate ceremony, there came a reminder of the lifeboat's simple purpose.

A dinghy with a defective engine was drifting a few hundred yards from the shore. With no radio, no flares, no anchor and no lifejackets, the two occupants waved energetically to draw attention to their plight.

Within minutes, the station's D class was being launched with cakebaker Neil Addington at the helm and the casualty was soon under tow to safety. Business as usual!.