Dover, Kent.—At 8.47 on the even- ing of the 24th of April, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station through the Dungeness pilot cutter that the S.S. Markab N., of Rotterdam, had been in collision with a Norwegian tanker one mile south of Folkestone.

At 9.5 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings in a moderate sea.

with a light southerly breeze blowing and a fog. Fifteen minutes later the Markab N. wirelessed for a doctor to attend the master who had injured his face badly. The life-boat returned to Dover, took a doctor on board and then made for the steamer which, by this time, had wirelessed that she needed immediate help two miles west of Dover. The life-boat found her heading towards Shakespeare Beach with a heavy list to starboard. The doctor and a life-boatman went on board, and the Markab N. ran on to the beach. The life-boat helped to refloat her, and a tug was then able to take her in tow. The life-boat remained with the steamer until the tug beached her again in Dover harbour. She then landed the master and doctor and arrived back at her station at 1.45 early on the morning of the 25th.—Property Salvage Case..