Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a fresh south- westerly breeze, and the tide was ebb- ing. The life-boat made for the position and found the yacht Skugga.

of Chichester, which had a crew of three, half a mile east of Rye Harbour.

She had been aground, but had re- floated and was in a dangerous posi- tion. The life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage and then returned to her station, arriving at 12.30 early on the 12th.—Rewards to the crew, £9 12i'.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £18 75..