Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles north-north-east of the pier. Just after 2.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was launched in a moderate sea with a moderate southerly breeze blowing.

She found the local motor boat Crusader a quarter of a mile west of East Margate Buoy, towed her to the harbour, and reached her station again at 3.55.—Rewards, £9 16s..