Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea was rough. The life- boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 9.53 and at 10.30 found the sailing yacht Theta off the North. Foreland. She was on passage from Shoreham to Chatham. Her sails had been damaged, and her small auxiliary engine had been giving trouble, but it was working again, and her skipper was trying to make Rams- gate. The life-boat put her second coxswain on board the Theta as pilot and then escorted her to Ramsgate, where she was safely moored at 12.15.

The life-boat arrived back at Margate at 2.15 in the afternoon, but had to anchor outside the harbour until she could be rehoused at five o'clock.— Rewards, £24 12s..