Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.28 in the morning of the 19th of March, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel two miles south-east of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, was drifting south, apparently with no crew, and the life-boat Prudential was launched at 11.40. A strong north-north-east breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The life-boat found an ex-landing barge near the East Goodwin Buoy. She was anchored, but was dragging to- wards the sands. No one was on board, but she was a danger to shipping, and the life-boat towed her to Ramsgate, which she reached at 3.5 that after- noon.—Rewards, £12 14*..