Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the motor tanker Johan- nishus. of Trelleborg, Sweden. She gave her position as twenty-two miles east-by-south of Ramsgate. At 3.40 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, on temporary duty at the station, put out and made for the position in a calm sea, with a light south-easterly breeze blowing and an ebbing tide. The crew of the Buc- caneer controlled the fire, but the tanker was also ablaze. She was burning furiously and her blazing cargo of oil spread on the surface of the sea. Several members of the crew jumped into the sea and were picked up by other vessels. The life-boat circled the ship, coming as near as she could, and looked for more sur- vivors. She found none and was recalled to her station, arriving at three o'clock. Of the tanker's crew of forty-three, twenty were stated to have lost their lives.—Rewards to the crew, £20 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, 18*..