AUGUST 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

During the afternoon of the 29th of August, three men put out in a ship’s sailing boat from Herne Bay. Later in the day she was reported to be drifting but to have refused a tow from a motor boat, though she appeared to be in difficulties. At five in the afternoon of the 30th she was reported off Reculver.

A moderate west-south-west wind was blowing and the sea smooth, but as the weather appeared to be deteriorating and the boat had been out for more than twenty-four hours it was decided to send her help, and the motor life-boat The Brothers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6.10.

She found the ship’s boat off Hook Sand Beacon, towed her to Herne Bay, and returned to her station at 8.5. - Rewards, £8 11s..