Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1955, the coast- guard reported that a motor launch from H.M.S. Ocean, an aircraft carrier at anchor off Margate, was in diffi- culties in dense fog near the Nayland Rocks about a quarter of a mile west of Margate pier. Ten minutes later the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. 11 was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a light north- easterly breeze, and it was two hours before high water. The life-boat made a search and learnt from another motor boat from the aircraft carrier that the launch had run ashore and dam- aged her propellers and rudder. The life-boat escorted the motor boat to Margate and then put off again to search for the motor launch. The launch was towed to the harbour by a pilot boat, and the life-boat was recalled to her station, arriving at 9.30.—Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..