Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, an ex-life-boat coxswain tele- phoned that a vessel had gone ashore on Newcombe Sands. The tide was very low, and at 7.45, when it had risen sufficiently, the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a heavy ground swell with a light north- westerly breeze blowing. She found the motor vessel Purbeck, of London, one and a half miles north-north-east of the life-boat station with nine people on board. The life-boat helped to refloat her, landed one of her crew, and reached her station again at 9.15.

—Property Salvage Case..