Dover, Kent.—At 1.14 in the after- noon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties five miles south-south-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 1.40 in charge of the second coxswain.

There was a fresh west-south-west gale with a very rough sea. She found the sailing yacht Victoria, of Portsmouth, with three naval officers on board, in Pegwell Bay, and towed her to Dover harbour. The rescued men she landed at her station, which she reached at 11.40 that night.—Rewards, £21 5s..