Dover, Kent.—At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had been reported in difficulties in Wear Bay. At 2.30 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea was rough, a fresh south-westerly breeze' was blowing, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat found the yacht Water Music, which had a crew of seven. She had been dis- masted two miles off Folkestone during a race from the Solent to Har- wich. The life-boat towed her to Dover, arriving at 4.45. The owner made a gift to the life-boat crew.—Re- wards to the crew, £3 16s.; reward to the helper on shore, 5s..