Ramsgate, Kent. — At 12.55 in the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small barge was flying a signal and drifting to the north-east, half a mile offshore.

The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.5, in a moderate south- westerly breeze, with a moderate sea, and found the auxiliary barge Arctic Dawn, with a crew of three, off Dumpton Gap. Her fuel pipes were choked and she was at anchor, but dragging. The life-boat towed her to the harbour and arrived back at her station at 2.8.-— Rewards, £8 13s..