Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.39 in the afternoon, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea twenty miles distant in a north- easterly direction from Ramsgate. At 1.51 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings in a south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. The Margate life- boat was launched too. But later on it was learnt that all the people from the aeroplane had been picked up by a steamer; so the life-boats changed course for their stations. When the Ramsgate life-boat was off the North Foreland she noticed two youths in a paddle canoe, being driven in a north-easterly direc- tion. She therefore took the youths and their canoe aboard, and reached Ramsgate at five o'clock.—Rewards, £11 Is..