Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.57 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had warned off a steamer which was in a dangerous place, and at 5.17 he tele- phoned again that she had grounded two and a half miles south-west-by- south of the lightvessel. At 5.28 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings in a moderate sea with a light east- south-east breeze blowing, and found the S.S. Kardesler, of Istanbul, bound for Cannes from Amsterdam. The steamer refloated on the rising tide and made her way over the Sands accompanied by the life-boat. She touched bottom several times, but she reached deep water. The master •then asked for two life-boatmen to go on board to guide her to a navigable channel. The life-boat led her to the Downs, where the two life-boat- men rejoined her, and the steamer went on her way. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.0 that night.—Rewards, £12 14s..