Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of Folkestone by nets fouling her propeller. The life- boat Southern Africa was launched at 6.10 in a rough sea with a strong north- north-easterly breeze blowing and hail and snow squalls. A few minutes later the Pilot Cutter Pioneer radioed that she had the trawler in tow, six miles from Folkestone. The life-boat came up with both vessels off Folkestone and accompanied them to Dover, where, in the Outer Harbour, she took over the tow. Then, putting a man aboard, she berthed the Holba at Camber. She reached her station again at 9.20.— Rewards, £10 15*..