Margate, Kent.—At 5.26 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the West- gate Safety Boatman had reported a small sailing yacht capsized about half a mile off shore at Birchington. A man was swimming in the sea. At 5.36 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1 was launched in a light south-westerly wind and a smooth sea.

Half an hour later she found the yacht, but no man. A small boat then came out from the shore and told the life-boat that the owner had got ashore and no one was missing. The Lord South- borough towed the upturned boat to Westgate Bay, and returned to her station by seven o'clock.—Rewards, £8 165..