Walmer, Kent.—At 6.51 on the even- ing of the 15th of May, 1951, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a yacht had broken down one mile north-east of the South Goodwin lightvessel and was drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. A small boat could be seen pulling away from her. At 7.0 the life-boat Jane Holland (on temporary duty at the station in place of the Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2) was launched. The sea was slight, with a moderate southerly breeze blowing.

She came up with a man in a dinghy who had left the ship—the motor launch Sudaria, of Troon—for help, and took him and the dinghy on board. On the Sudoria, which had run out of petrol, she found another man. The life-boat towed in the Sudoria, landed the two men, and reached her station again at 8.30.—Rewards, £16 12s..