Margate, Kent.—At 3.5 in the after- noon, on the 26th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht, which appeared to have broken down, was drifting four miles north- east by east of the pier. At 3.13 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched, in a rough sea with a fresh west-south-west breeze blowing. She found the motor yacht Mercure, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with a crew of four, making very slowly for Ramsgate. Her skipper said that bothher engines had broken down, and only one had been got going again. The life-boat escorted the yacht to Rams- gate, and arrived back at her station at 5.30 that evening.—Rewards, £19 95. 6d..