Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched in a rough sea with a moderate south- westerly breeze blowing. She reached the casualty, the twenty-five ton auxiliary yacht Active, of Cardiff,bound from Chatham to Tangier with four persons aboard, at 4.20, and found her at anchor with heavy seas breaking over her. The master re- ported that he could make no headway with his small auxiliary engine and asked for help to reach shelter. A life-boatman was put on board the Active to help raise the anchor, and at five o'clock^ she was taken in tow for Ramsgate." At seven o'clock when they were off the Tongue Tower the tow rope parted. Another rope was got safely aboard and the life-boat continued the tow, but when the North Foreland was reached it was found that the weather was too bad to proceed to Ramsgate. They there- fore made for Margate, where the Active was safely anchored off Margate Harbour. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 9.30 that evening.—Rewards, £15 18s. 6d..