Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.24 in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a boat drifting to the north-east, and at •2.40 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a light north-westerly breeze, with a slight sea. She found an open boat, fifteen feet long, with nine men on board. They were men from the steam trawler Plough, of Kirkcaldy, which had sunk near the lightvessel after striking submerged wreckage. In getting their boat away they had damaged it and lost its gear.

The boat was waterlogged and drifting over the sands. The life-boat rescued the men and, with the boat in tow, made for her station, arriving at 5.30.— Rewards, £12 17*. 6d..