Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the lightvessel. At 5.5 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 was launched and made for the position in a moderate sea, with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing and an ebbing tide. A helicopter had taken off, but the crew of two of the yacht Bonne Sante declined its help.

The life-boat found the yacht high and dry, but the yachtsmen would not leave her. The life-boat crew told them that they would be in danger when the tide rose, and they eventually went aboard the life-boat. The life- boat then secured a line to the yacht, re-floated her on the rising tide and towed her ashore. She reached her station again at 10.45. The yachts- men made donations to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards to the crew, £16 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £18 14s..