Margate, Kent.— At 7.49 on the night of the 28th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned news from North Foreland Radio that a ship was aground on the east end of Margate Spit Sands. She was the S.S. Warren Field, of Liverpool,, on passage from Newlyn to Rochester with a cargo of granite and carrying a crew of ten.

At 8.8 the life-boat The Lord South- borough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched in a heavy swell with a fresh north-north-east breeze blowing. She found the steamer with a heavy list to port. There was heavy broken surf round her, but the life-boat went along- side and gave the skipper advice. By using her engines the steamer was then refloated, and got back on her course, piloted by the life-boat, which reached her station again at 1.15 the next morning.—Property Salvage Case..