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Glenwood

Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 6th of February, 1948, the motor barge Glen- wood, of Rochester, bound for Newport in the Isle of Wight, got into difficulties off Dumpton Gap. She was seen by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, which sent the information through the coast- guard to the life-boat station at one o'clock in the afternoon and ten minutes later the motor life-boat Pru- dential was launched. A fresh north- north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the barge with her engine broken down and her sails carried away. She was drift- ing helpless, and was leaking. She had a crew of four. With difficulty the life-boat went alongside, put some of her own crew on board, and towed the barge to Ramsgate, arriving at 3.14 that afternoon.—Rewards, 13s. 6d.— Property Salvage Case..