Dover, Kent.—At 1.58 early on the morning of the 25th of November, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was burning flares one mile east-north-east of the Varne lightvessel. At 2.20 the life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.

3), on temporary duty at the station, put out. There was a rough sea, a strong north-westerly breeze was blow- ing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the German drifter Tiu, with her engines broken down, in tow of the German trawler Kiel.

She stood bv the vessels until thevwere off Dover and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 5.10.— Rewards to the crew, £9..