Margate, Kent.—At 5.32 in the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had radioed through the North Foreland Station that Mid-Barrow Lightship had reported a motor launch ashore near No. 11 Buoy. The life-boat Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 5.55 in a moderate easterly wind with a slight sea and reached the position at ten minutes past eight.

There she found, on the West Barrow Sands, on which the surf was breaking, the motor yacht Wairakei II, of London. She had a man and a woman on board. A life-boatman went on board her and fastened a tow-rope, and the life-boat towed her off. As her engine was giving trouble and night was approaching, her owner asked to be towed to Burnham-on-Crouch. The life-boat began to tow soon after ten o'clock and reached the entrance to the Crouch three hours later. Here the two vessels anchored for a time and finally reached Burnham at six o'clock next morning. After refuelling the life-boat left at nine and arrived back at Margate at 3.30 in-the after- noon. She had been away over twenty- one hours.—Property Salvage Case..