Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.41 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a cargo vessel was listing heavily near Gull Stream Buoy. At 1.53 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No.

3, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea was rough, a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, and it was one hour after low water.

The life-boat found the motor vessel Alice, of Lidkoping, Sweden, a vessel of 499 tons, whose cargo of timber had shifted. Two members of the life- boat crew boarded her, and the life- boat escorted her to Ramsgate Har- bour. She helped her to a safe mooring and reached her station again at eight o'clock.---Property Salvage Case.—Rewards to the helpers on shore, 15s. 6d..