Margate, Kent.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had capsized half a mile north of Reculver Tower. At 3.47 the life- boat North Foreland, Civil Service No.

XI was launched with the second coxswain in charge. The sea was rough with a fresh north-westerly breeze blowing. Before long she heard over the wireless that the one occupant of the yacht had been picked up; and that the Tongue Lightvessel reported a man in a sailing boat waving a flag half a mile south-east of the lightvessel.

She came up with this sailing boat, the Kestrel, one mile south of the Tongue Sand Tower. The man was exhausted, so the life-boat took him on board, gave him rum and hot soup and a change of clothing; and towed the Kestrel to Margate reaching her station again at 6.30 that evening.—• Rewards, £10 11*. 6d..