Margate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 7th of July, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small motor yacht was drifting out to sea near the feast Margate buoy. At 7.25 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.

11) was launched in a rough sea. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat reached the position at 7.50 and went alongside the yacht Lady Beatrice D, of Colchester. The yacht had one man aboard, who told the coxswain she had had engine trouble but that the engine was now working again. The coxswain decided to escort the yacht to Ramsgate harbour, and the life-boat then re- turned to her station, arriving at 12.50.

—Rewards to the crew, £12 13s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..