Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat had been reported in diffi- culties one mile off Tankerton. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 1.10. There was a very rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly gale blowing and a flooding tide. When she reached the position indicated, the life-boat found that a motor-boat had the small boat in tow and was trying to enter Whit- stable harbour. The life-boat escorted both boats. A message was then received that the tanker B.P. Dis- tributor had six survivors aboard from the S.S. Teeswood, which had capsized off Dungeness. The life-boat was asked to land them. She came up with the B.P. Distributor off Longnose buoy, where the six men were trans- ferred to the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at eight o'clock. A full account of the rescue from the small boat off Tanker- ton and from the S.S. Teesvcood appears on page 322.—Rewards to the crew, £18 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..