Margate, Kent.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 6th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel was drifting four miles north-north-west of Margate. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The life-boat crew assembled at 6.45 but were unable to launch owing to the extreme lowness of the tide, and the pilot boat put out. At nine o'clock she signalled for help, and the motor life- boat Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 9.15 and found the pilot boat with the motor yacht Leda, of Rye, in tow, with two women and two men on board. The yacht's engines had broken down and the life-boat escorted her , to Margate arriving at 10.25.—Rewards, £8 8s..