Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched in a rough sea. A strong westerly wind was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor yacht Gull of Dover anchored with engine trouble. Her crew of two asked for help, and the second coxswain was put aboard the yacht to help weigh anchor before the life-boat took her in tow, as the Gull's winch was defective.

The yacht had a foul anchor, but after some difficulty it was got inboard and the life-boat towed the yacht to Rams- gate, arriving at 1.15. The life-boat reached her station at four o'clock.

Property salvage case.

The Gull had been taken in tow to Ramsgate on the 17th of May by the Walmer life-boat. An account of this service appears on page 116..