Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.20 in the afternoon on the 20th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned to say that a small yacht was in distress in Pegwell Bay. The two men on board were waving an oar with a flag attached.

At 3.28 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings in a moderate sea with a south-westerly breeze blowing. She found the auxiliary yacht Marie, dis- abled with engine failure and a smashed rudder. Two life-boatmen were put aboard and the Marie, together with her crew, was brought into Ramsgate harbour at 3.55.—Rewards, £6 12s. Qd.