The Life-boat Coxswain at Hythe telephoned to the Dover Coxswain at 2 A.M. on the 1st July that a small yacht was making a distress signal by continuously sound- ing her fog-horn about half a mile off the Hythe Life-boat House. As the Hythe Motor Life-boat was undergoing her annual overhaul she was not avail- able, but her Crew assembled in readi- ness to help if the yacht came ashore.

The Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary left her moorings at 2.18 A.M.

and went to Hythe, where at daybreak she found the yacht Rosalind, of Pen- arth, with two men on board, bound from Southampton to the Thames. One man was taken into the Life-boat, but the owner stayed on board, and as the yacht was in a dangerous position and likely to drive ashore she was taken to Dover by the Life-boat.—Rewards, Dover, £3 15s. ; Hythe, £2 14s..