Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship five and a half miles south of Folkestone. She was trving to beach herself. At 11.20 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a calm sea. There was a light south- westerly breeze and thick fog. The life-boat found the Margrethe Bakke four miles south of Dover towing two of her boats, which had on board thirty-one passengers and crew. At 10.54 the Lade coastguard had inform- ed the Dungeness life-boat station, and at 11.25 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The Dover life-boat's second coxswain and bow- man boarded the Margrethe Bakke to give her master advice, and at his request the life-boat wirelessed for a pilot. The second coxswain mean- while piloted her to a safe anchorage half a mile east of the eastern harbour arm at Dover. A tug arrived, and the life-boat took two men from her tothe Margrethe Bakke and then put the thirty-one people aboard their ship again. A pilot was sent out from Dover in a motor boat, and he berthed the vessel alongside the eastern arm.

The life-boat stood by during this operation and arrived back at her station at 9.50 that night. The Dungeness life-boat was not needed, and she was recalled to Dungeness, arriving at 2.20 in the afternoon.— Rewards: Dungeness, £27 14s.; Dover, Property Salvage Case..