Walmer, Kent..—At 11.16 on night of the 14th of June, 1948, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning a flare and her crew shouting for help half a mile north-east of Leathercoat Point, and the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20, in a light southerly breeze with a swell.

She found the motor vessel Oceana, with a crew of four, a quarter of a mile from the shore. Her engine had broken down and she was in danger of going on the rocks. Four life-boatmen boarded her and the life-boat towed her to Dover, arriving back at her station at 3.30 the next morning.— Property Salvage Case..