Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.

on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on board. Her engine had broken down, and her propeller fouled, and she was drifting towards the rocks.

A strong E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 10.5 A.M. and found the San Toy about a mile east of Margate pier. She put two men on board and towed her into safety. In boarding the yacht one of the men fell into the sea, but he was not hurt and was quickly hauled back into the lifeboat.

The yacht was moored in the harbour, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.35 A.M., although she could not be rehoused until 4.15 P.M.

on account of the rough sea.—Property Salvage Case..