Dover, Kent. At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Boulogne that the trawler Notre-Dame de la Sallete of Boulogne was on the Sandettie bank with her trawl nets entangled in her propeller.

At 1.10 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a very rough sea. There was a fresh east-south-easterly gale and it was high water. At 2.30, when passing the East Goodwin Sands, the coxswain asked Boulogne radio for the position of the French trawler, which was then given as ten miles south of the Galloper.

An hour later the position was altered to two miles south-south-east of the Kentish Knock buoy. The trawler was eventually found at eight o'clock one mile south-east of the Outer Tongue buoy. Her master asked the coxswain to stand by until the French tug Jean Bart arrived. The life-boat then re- turned to her station, arriving at 12.25 early on the 24th of March. Rewards to the crew etc., £28 10s..