Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.16 on the afternoon of the 20th of February, 1957, a telephone message was received from the east pier that a tug was aground on Brake Sands. Nine minutes later the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a rough sea.

There was a strong north-north- easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the steam tug Tanga, of London, with a crew of eight. The tug had damaged her propeller shaft when she had gone aground, and the life-boat put a line aboard her and took her in tow to Ramsgate harbour, arriving at 2.16.—Property Salvage Case.—Re- wards to the helpers on shore, 13*. 6d..