Margate, Kent. — At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was aground on Margate sands.

The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 2.45.

There was a rough sea, with a fresh south-west gale blowing, and an ebbing tide. The life-boat came up with the fishing boat Dorothy of London, with a crew of three, four miles north-west- by-north from Margate pier. The life- boat stood, by until the vessel refloated, and then escorted her to Margate harbour, arriving back at her station at eleven o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £17 95.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..