— A strong N.E.

breeze was blowing, with a nasty sea running, on 23rd September, when in- formation that a vessel had stranded on the Margate Sands was received from the Coastguard, and the Motor Life-boat City of Bradford No. 1—the Humber Emergency Life-boat doing temporary duty at Margate—put out at 7.50 A.M. The s.s. Kassar Wiek, of Hamburg, bound, in ballast, from Nantes to Beckton, was found ashore by the stern, but, with the help of the Life- boat, the -vessel was refloated. While the Life-boat was alongside, the steamer rolled down on her and she sustained some damage.—Property Salvage Case..