Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 2nd October, 1938, a rowing boat belonging to Westgate, with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties about half a mile N. of the S.E.

Margate Buoy. She was being blown out to sea by a southerly gale, with a choppy sea and heavy rain squalls, and was in danger of foundering. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 11.15 A.M. She took the men into the life-boat and towed their boat to the shore at VVestgate. When she returned to her station the coxswain was told that a yacht was being blown out to sea off the Walpole Rocks and the lifeboat went off again at 12.15 P.M. She found the yacht Engadine, of Margate, with four people on board. The lifeboat took them off, took the yacht in tow, and returned to Margate Harbour at 1.20 P.M.—Rewards, £9 8s..