Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.25 on the after- noon of the 29th of July, 1953, a message was received from the East Pier that two women and a boy were in difficulties in a Pedalo pleasure float, and were drifting seawards off Dumpton Gap. At 1.30 the life-boat Prudential put out in a slight sea and light west-south-west breeze. She rescued the women and the boy and towed the float to Ramsgate. reaching her station again at 2.14.—Rewards, £6 12s. 6d..