Margate, Kent.—At 5.54 on the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin lightvessel had reported that a dinghy had drifted past her with an unidentified object hanging on its bow.

At 6.5 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. 11 was launched in a smooth sea and with a light westerly wind blowing, with poor visibility, and spoke to the lightvessel. She learnt that the dinghy was now near the north-east Goodwin buoy, and she found it one mile south of the buoy.

There was no one in the dinghy, and the life-boat took it on board and returned to her station, arriving at 11.20.—Rewards, £14 7s..