AUGUST 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 1.30 P.M. a destroyer lying off Margate and two minesweepers were being attacked by German aeroplanes. A fresh westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2 P.M. and went to the help of the minesweepers which were putting up a great fight about three miles E. by N. of the Long Nose Buoy, but appeared to be in trouble. She found that one of them, the Edwardian, had had three men killed and four wounded, but that the wounded had by then been put on board the other minesweeper Peter Carey. They were transferred to the life-boat, which took them to Ramsgate, the nearest port. In the meantime the Peter Carey took the Edwardian in tow and beached her under the North Foreland.

The life-boat returned to her station at 5 P.M. - Rewards, £5 12s. 6d..