IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.

Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four months, though not by the same Life-boat, after having been saved 20 years ago. This vessel is the ketch Malvoisin, of London, which had anchored in the Downs about midnight on 9th November last in a N.N.E. gale with very heavy seas while on her way, in ballast, from Whitstable to Calais, and made distress signals.

The Deal Life-boat went out and her crew of four were rescued. The ketch herself was left still riding at anchor, and, later on, was brought into safety.

Then on the night of March 5th of this year one of the two Life-boats at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, went out in answer to flares of distress, and found the ketch Malvoisin, on her way from Hull to Woolwich Arsenal with a cargo of timber. All her sails had been blown away, and the Life-boat stood by her all night until, in the morning, she was taken in tow by H.M.S. Dee, the Fishery Protection Gunboat, which towed her into Harwich, the Life-boat keeping with her until she was in safety.

Twenty years ago, in the early morn- ing of 15th January, 1905, the Margate No. 1 Life-boat went out in a S.E. gale in a vessel ashore on the sand, twenty- three miles away, at the mouth of the Thames, and found the ketch Malvoisin, of London, bound from Gravelines to Goole. She had lost her rudder, her bulwarks were smashed, her sails blown away, and the seas were making a clean breach over her. With the greatest difficulty the Life-boat got alongside and rescued the crew of four, who were all utterly exhausted. The Life-boat was out over ten hours in the height of the gale, and the Institution awarded the Acting-Coxswain, S. Clayson, its Silver Medal for gallantry in saving life. Two days later the Life-boatmen, with the help of a tug, succeeded in bringing the battered ketch herself into harbour.

The ketch was then over twenty years old, having been built in 1883, and she has lived another twenty years to be helped twice more by the Life-boat Service.