Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.28 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had wirelessed that a vessel appeared to be aground three miles south by west of the lightvessel, and at 4.38 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings, in a moderate sea with a light west-south- west breeze blowing. She found the S.S. President Emile Marcesche, of Lorient, with a crew of twenty-seven, on the north side of Kellet Gut. She had laid out a kedge anchor. Two life-boatmen boarded her. The life-boat then took soundings, and advised the master at what time to have his engines ready to start. When the time came he started them and the steamer refloated. The life-boat guided her to navigable water, re- embarked the life-boatmen, and re- turned to her station, arriving at 12.33 the next morning.—Property Salvage Case; Rewards, 16s..