Margate, Kent. — At 12.14 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1948,.

the coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles to the north-north- west, and at 12.30 the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil Service No. -1 was launched. A moderate 'south-south-east breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the tug Beacon, of Gillingham, bound for Grangemouth, aground on the sands four miles to the north-north- west. She was bumping heavily on the sands, and her crew of four asked to be towed in. The life-boat reached her station again at 2.50.—Rewards, £15 3*..