Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a yacht with her engine broken down needed help seven miles north-west of the Sandettie lightvessel. At 5.28 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was rough, there was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebbing. Three-quarters of an hour later the coastguard reported that the yacht Normarie, with a crew of two, had been taken in tow to Calais by a French trawler, and the life-boat was recalled. On her way back to her moorings the life-boat came across a yacht towing another yacht with engine trouble. She escorted them both to harbour, arriving there at 7.55.

—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; re- ward to the helper on shore, IQs. Qd..