Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.47 in the afternoon, on the 14th of December, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about three-quarters of a mile east of the coast- guard station. At 3.55 the life-boat Prudential slipped her moorings, in a light north-westerly breeze and smooth sea. She found the local motor yacht Tarka unable to start her engines as her batteries were exhausted. She towed her to moorings in the harbour, and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.35.—Rewards, £8 12s. fld..