Ramsgate, Kent.—Four small fishing boats manned by fifteen men left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938. By ten o'clock a whole S.W.

gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The boats were unable to make harbour, and were in danger of foundering.

The motor life-boat The Brothers was launched at 10.5 A.M., picked up the boats and towed them safely back to harbour. But for her help it is probable that they and their crews would have been lost. The life-boatreturned to her station at 10.45 A.M., just as the coastguard reported that a boat, with five boys on board, was drifting towards Ramsgate from Deal.

She put out again, but found that the boat had been taken in tow by a Deal motor boat. She finally got back to her station at 11.45 A.M.—Rewards, £8 Is. 6d..