LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.45. The weather was calm, but there was fog. The life-boat found nothing and returned to her station at midnight for news.

At 2.55 the following morning she went out again, but again found nothing, and it was decided to discontinue the search until daylight. When the life- boat put out for the third time it was still foggy. Again she found nothing, and she was recalled, arriving back at her station at 10 o'clock. It was learnt later that the boy and his dinghy had been picked up by a steamer.

The boy gave £10 to the Life-boat Service—the amount for which he sold the dinghy.—Rewards, £37 7s..