Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch motor yacht, the Vigilanter, of Rotterdam, but when they were about half a mile off the lighthouse she had broken adrift and her mast had carried away. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 3 P.M. She found the Hyperion waterlogged and swept by heavy seas. Her crew of two had been taken on board the Vigilanter, and the only man on board the Hyperion was one of the Vigilanter''s crew. The life-boat rescued him. In the lee of Dungeness Point she returned him to the Vigilanter, took on board the two men of the Hyperion, and, after picking up their yacht, returned ashore at 4.25 P.M.

The Institution sent a letter to the coxswain, D. Oilier, expressing appreciation of this smart service, and an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was granted to him and to each member of the life-boat crew.—Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..