SMALL BOAT HELPLESS Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat flying a signal of distress about one and a half miles north-north-east of the coastguard station, and the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 3.25 in a strong west-south- westerly wind, with a choppy sea.

She reached the small boat ten minutes later and found her to be the Water Lily with a crew of three. She was dragging her anchor. The life-boat took the three men on board, and with their boat in tow, arrived at Dungeuess at 4.25.—Rewards, £17 19s..