Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Hen- derson was launched at 12.35. A fresh south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found that the yacht was the Kestrel, of Rye, with a crew of three. She was then only a quarter of a mile off the shore. The life-boat towed her to Ness Roadstead and anchored her. A message then came that another yacht, the Anemone III, of Bosham, was in need of help one mile south-west of the life-boat. The life-boat escorted her to the roadstead, returned to the Kestrel and took off the crew, and arrived back at her station at 3.20. While she was being re- housed the Lade coastguard telephoned that the Anemone III, which had anchored half a mile south-east of that coastguard station, was firing distress signals. The life-boat was launched again at 3.45, found the yacht making water, rescued her crew of four, and arrived back at her station at 4.20— Rewards: First Service, £26 2*.; Second Service, £20 Is..