Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.

on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.

She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with an officer of the Royal Marines and an officer of the Royal Artillery on board.

At noon the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put out into a rough sea, with a moderate, but increasing, south-westerly gale. The crew of the Bluebird found that they could make no progress in the heavy seas, and accepted the life-boat's help. With the yacht in tow she arrived at Folkestone about 2.15 P.M. and then, having seen the yacht moored, returned to Dunf eness, arriving at 5.30 P.M.—Rewards, 11 10s. 6d..