At 4.20 A.M.

on the 20th January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard report- ing that a vessel was ashore at Thorpe- ness. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Dresden was launched and found the s.s. Monkwood, of London, laden with coal from the Tyne, about a hundred yards from the shore. The master of the steamer engaged the Life-boatmen to save the vessel, and, by running out kedge anchors and jettisoning part oi the cargo, they succeeded in refloating the steamer, which was then able to proceed to London..