Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light north-easterly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the triple-screw motor yacht Shirley Bourne aground on the Dyke Shoals. She was on a pleasure cruise and had a party of six on board.

As the tide was low the life-boat could not get alongside, but got a line aboard by means of the life-boat's boarding boat, and then towed the yacht clear and into Ramsgate Harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 6.40 in the evening.—Property salvage case. Rewards, 13s..