Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht with a capsized boat alongside was calling for help off Birchington.

The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11} was launched at 1.11 in a choppy sea. There was a moder- ate south-westerly breeze, and the tide was flooding. Heavy rain made visibility very poor at times. The life-boat made for the position and found the sailing yacht Windflower, of Portsmouth, which had taken on board a man from the capsized yacht Brise, of Birchington. The man was trans- ferred to the life-boat, where he was wrapped in a blanket, and the yacht was taken in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 2.50, where the man was taken to a waiting ambulance.

—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4?..