Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the Tongue lightvessel that the local trawler Volante had sunk three- quarters of a mile south of South Knock Buoy, after catching in her trawl a mine which had exploded. Her crew of three had rowed to the lightvessel.

The coastguard asked that the fisher- men should be advised, and that the life-boat be sent to land them. Accord- ingly five minutes later the life-boat Prudential slipped her moorings in a slight sea and light westerly breeze,picked up the men and returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock.—• Rewards, £12 14s..