Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the even- ing of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was on Red Sands. At 7.15 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The sea was rough, with a fresh southerly breeze blowing. She found the sailing yacht Kirawan, of Benfleet, high and dry with a crew of four. The tide was rising, so the life-boat anchored near the sandbank and stood by the yacht until she refloated. When she eventually drifted clear, she went alongside the life-boat; but a pilot boat, which had put out from South- end, towed her to Southend. The life-boat returned- to her station, arriving at 1.30 the next morning.— Rewards, £19 9s. 6d..