The Sandgate coast- guard telephoned to the coxswain, at 3 A.M. on the 22nd February, that a ship had been sounding S O S on her hooter. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. At 3.28 A.M.

the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched and went for some time in a south-easterly direction. About 4 A.M. she received, on the wireless set which she carries, a message giving1 the position of the ship. She had been in collision with an unknown steamer off Folkestone bearing two miles north- east. The life-boat went in this direc- tion, and seeing a red flare through the fog, made for it, and found a crew of six, of the motor vessel Grit, of London, in a small dinghy. They were rescued by the life-boat, which returned to her station at 5.40 A.M. The Grit was laden with coal and on her way from Keady to Exeter.—Rewards, £31 Is. 6d..