Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.23 in the afternoon, on the 13th of January, 1951, the Newhaven Radio station re- ported that the Dutch tug Ganges, tow- ing a barge and a steam hopper from Rotterdam to Southampton, had asked for help. At 1.45 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a heavy swell with a fresh westerly breeze blowing. She found the three boats eight miles to the south. The barge was in a sinking condition, so the life- boat rescued her crew of two, put them aboard the Ganges and returned to her station, arriving at 3.15. The owners of the barge and hopper made a gift to the life-boatmen.—Rewards, £9 11*..