Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was very low, the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson could not get away until 5.15 A.M.

She found the steamer Soudan, of the P. & O. Line, London, bound, laden, for London from the Far East. The coxswain boarded the Soudan and the life-boat stood by until she refloated.

Finding that the steamer was not making water and that she would be able to go on to London, the life-boat returned to her station at 8.45 A.M.—• Rewards, £24 16s. 9d..