Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She had listed heavily with the ebbing tide.

At 8.20 the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, in a light south-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She passed a tow rope to the yacht and gradually pulled her into deep water.

When they were near the Deal Bank Buoy the rope was cast off and the Nicephore made for Dover under sail.

TherJife-boat returned to her station, arriving at 10.42 that morning.—Pro- perty Salvage Case. Rewards, 13s. 6d..