Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.

Ten minutes later the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a sailing barge anchored off Newcome buoy had fired rockets. At 5.10 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. She made for the position in a rough sea, with a northerly gale blowing and an ebbing tide, and came up with the barge Will Everard, of London. The barge was dragging her anchor and drifting. The life-boat rescued her crew of three and returned to her station, arriving at 5.55. Rewards to the crew, £8 155.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £16 13s..