Dover, Kent.—In the morning of the 21st of November, 1949, the S.S.

Intendant J. Patrizi, of Rouen, which had been ashore off Seabrook, was steaming towards Dover in a very rough sea with a whole southerly gale blowing and rain. The . coastguard informed the life-boat authorities at 7 o'clock and at 7.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings, in charge of the second coxswain. She found the steamer five miles to the south-west, lying broadside to the seas and in danger of going ashore again.

The weather was too bad to put a man on board. The coxswain hailed the master, advised him to follow the life-boat, and eventually anchored the steamer in the Downs. She returned to her station by 12.50 in the after- noon.—Property Salvage Case..