Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.50 in the morning of the 28th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship between North Foreland and Broadstairs, making for Ramsgate, had signalled by lamp that water was entering her engine room and that she needed help. At 6.4 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings in a slight sea, with a light south-westerly breeze blowing. She found the motor launch Karagola, of Plymouth, leaking badly.

The owner, a erew of three, and seven members of a concert party were on board, bound for Bognor. Two life- boatmen boarded her and the life-boat then escorted her to Ramsgate. berthed her and got back to her station at 7.15.

—Property Salvage Case; Rewards, 13s..