Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a moderate south- westerly breeze with rain squalls.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the yacht La Bonne Sante, of Greenwich, with one man aboard, among the sandbanks. The coxswain put a man aboard the yacht.

He intended to tow her to Herne Bay, but the weather deterioriated and he decided instead to tow her to Margate harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at three o'clock.— Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..