LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer Rolf Jarl, of Trondheim. She was due off Margate at 5.30, but no boat was available there except the life-boat. As at Ramsgate also no other suitable boat was avail- able, the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 4.45 in a strong northerly breeze with a very rough sea. She met the steamer, by arrangement, be- tween the Elbow and Foreland Buoys, took the pilot on board and returned to her station, arriving at 7.15 in the morning. The pilot sent to the Insti- tution the fee of ten guineas which he had received from the Rolf Jarl.— Rewards, £7 18*. 6d..