Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a choppy sea and light south-westerly breeze. She found the motor cruiser Matelot, with a crew of two, broken down half a mile off the Warren, Folkestone. Two life-boatmen boarded her and the life;boat towed her to Dover, reaching her station again at 9.15. The owner made a gift to the life-boat crew.— Rewards, £6 18s..