Walmer, Kent.—At 5.28 on the after- noon of the 27th of April, 1953. the Deal coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Siroco, of Boulogne, had hit a wreck in the Downs and appeared to have stuck, and at 5.35 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Ser- vice No. 2 was launched. There was a slight sea, with a moderate south- south-west breeze blowing and mist, and the life-boat found the Siroco, with a crew of ten, fast on the wreck. The life-boat put a rope on board, towed her clear, and then returned to her station, arriving at 6.40. The Siroco was undamaged and went on her way.