On the afternoon of the 2nd May the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the fishing boat F.E. 78—the Cereal, of Folkestone—was in difficulties half a mile off Sandgate. A moderate N.E.

gale was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched at 5.10 P.M. and found the Cereal three and a half miles south-east of Sandgate. Her petrol supply had run out, and her sails had been blown away. The life-boat towed her into Folkestone and arrived back at her station at 7.20 P.M.—Rewards, £15 15s..