Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.48 in the evening of the 6th of September, 1949, the East pier shore attendant tele- phoned that a yacht was on the Brake Sands and the life-boat Mary Scott, on. temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 5.51 in fine weather, with a smooth sea. She found the auxiliary ketch Le Cygne, of London, hard aground half a mile south of No. 3 Brake Buoy, and stood by her until the tide rose sufficiently to put the ketch out of danger. She reached her station again at 7.33.—Rewards, £6 13s. 6d.