Margate, Kent.:—At 7.55 on the evening of the 21st of July, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was on Margate Sands. At 8.7 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The sea was rough •with a moderate easterly breeze blowing. She found the sailing yacht Ragna, of London, with a crew of four, bound for Southampton, but could not close her, because of shallow water.

So she anchored thirty yards away and passed a tow-line across to preventthe yacht driving farther on to the sands. Eventually the life-boat pulled her clear, towed her to Ramsgate and arrived back at her station at 7.0 next morning.—Property Salvage Case.