Margate, Kent.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 28th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a tug with a yacht in tow had run ashore on the Hook Sands. At 6.45 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. 11 was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh south-westerly wind was blow- ing, and it was nearly low water. The life-boat found the tug Sally, of Whit- stable, with a crew of two, towing an empty yacht, the Sunbeam. The tug had been bound for Rochester, but had lost her bearings and her crew had no food. The life-boatmen passed across soup and biscuits, and the life-boat stood by until the tug refloated and went on her way. The life-boat re- turned to her station at eleven o'clock.

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