Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from Kingsgate that two men in a sailing boat three quarters of a mile off Joss Bay were waving an oar. At three o'clock the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was launched. The sea was rough and a fresh breeze was blowing from the west-north-west. The life- boat found the sailing boat Avec Nom, of Kingsgate, three miles east of Broadstairs being blown seawards.

The men were wet and very cold. The life-boatmen rescued them, gave them rum, took their boat on board the life-boat and returned to their station, arriving at 5.20.—Rewards, £9 12s. Qd.