Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was slight, there was a light breeze, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat found three motor cruisers aground on the North Goodwin Sands.

They were the Kon Tiki and Thyl, of Nieuwport, Belgium, and the Fraeya, of London. They had been taking part in the Thames motor cruiser rally.

The life-boat anchored close to them, and three life-boatmen walked over the sands. One went aboard each cruiser. The life-boat towed the Bel- gian cruisers clear, stood by while the Fraeya refloated, and then returned to her station, arriving at 10.12. The crews of the boats, twelve people in all, made gifts to the life-boatmen.— Rewards, £13 3*..