Ramsgate, Kent.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of October, 1956, a message was received from the east pier that red flares had been seen two miles east of Ramsgate and that the local motor boat Skipjack.

with a crew of three, was overdue. At 6.10 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight sea. There was a light west-north-westerly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the motor boat and found that her engine had broken down. She took her in tow to Rams- gate, arriving at 6.32.—Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, 12s. Qd..