YACHT ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Margate, Kent.—At 10.46 in the morn- in of the 20th of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a Nor- wegian steamer had reported through the North Foreland Radio Station that three men were adrift in a disabled yacht inside Knock John Buoy. The motor life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.10 in a fresh south-easterly wind with a rough sea. She went to the posi- tion given, about fourteen miles from Margate, and found a small outboard motor boat, with three men on board.

They had no petrol and had been at sea all night. The life-boat took them on board, and with the small boat in tow, returned to Margate, arriving at 3.50 in the afternoon. While the life-boat was out, information was received that a steamer was putting three naval men ashore at Gravesend. They, too, had been picked up near the Knock John Buoy, and it was not known which of the two casualties was the 'one reported by the Norwegian steamer.—Rewards, £18 18s..