At 5.20 P.M. on the 4th June, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on Margate Sands, and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.40 P.M. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with a ground swell, and it was hazy. The life-boat found the motor ketch Storm Finch, of London, with six people on board, aground near the North Beacon.

Two life-boatmen were put on board the ketch and the life-boat then got her off and towed her into deep water. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 8 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..