Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now out of sight.

The life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings at 5.50 in a moderate sea, with a moderate westerly breeze blowing, and found the boat with the dinghy in tow one and a half miles east-north-east of the lightvessel. She towed both boats to the lightvessel, took the dinghy on board and brought the boy ashore at 7.38. There he was met by the police.

He had run away from an institution and had stolen the dinghy from Margate.—Rewards, £8 13s..