Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and found the French naval vessel Victorieuse stranded on Newcome Bank. At the captain's request the life-boat stood by, and later she and a local motor boat laid out an anchor. The Victorieuse refloated un- damaged and the life-boat .returned to her station at 2.45 that afternoon.— Property Salvage Case..