NOVEMBER 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

Early in the afternoon the crew had assembled at the boathouse during an air raid alert. The weather was clear, the sea smooth. and a southerly wind was blowing.

A tug was seen to blow up, having struck a mine, about five miles north of the station and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 1.40 P.M.

She found seven survivors clinging to the wreckage of the tug, which was the Guardsman, of Hull. The tug had sunk at once, giving the crew no time to launch a boat or rafts. Two other members of the crew were missing. The life-boat searched for them, but she could not And them and returned to her station at 3.5 P.M. - Rewards, £7 12s..