DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Margate, Kent.—In the morning of the 28th of August, 1947, information came from the British Steamer Hill- crest Park through the North Foreland Radio and the coastguard that the motor cabin cruiser Aloha, of Lowestoft, was at anchor in distress three-quarters of a mile south of Tongue Sand Tower.

She was said to be without drinking •water and to have been, drifting for two days. No tug was available at Ramsgate and at 9.25 the Margate motor life-boat The Lord Southborough —Civil Service No. 1 was launched.

Mr. A. C. Robinson, the honorary secretary, went with her. A moderate north-easterly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. The life-boat reached the Aloha, which had a crew of six, to find that a naval launch had come out from Sheerness. The launch stood by -while members of the life-boat crew boarded the Aloha and then the life- boat took her in tow. She arrived back at Margate at 12.15 that afternoon.— Property Salvage Case..