RESCUED BOAT SINKS Margate, Kent.—-At 5.15 in the afternoon of April the 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that two small vessels were in distress three miles north-east of Margate. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 5.80 in a moderate breeze and rough sea.

She found the motor boats Aleeta Noot, with two persons aboard, and La Falaise, with a crew of five. Both boats' engines had broken down and La Falaise was half full of water. The.

life-boat rescued the crew of La Falaise and took both boats in tow, but the La Falaise sank and the tow-rope had to be cut. With the Aleeta Noot in tow the life-boat made for Margate and after landing the seven persons, one of whom was suffering from exposure, returned to her station at 7.30 in the evening.—Rewards, £10 3*..