Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate sea, with a gentle southerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. With the aid of her searchlight the life-boat found the fishing vessel Tom Pepper of Folkestone with a crew of three. Her engine was waterlogged. A tow rope was put aboard, and the life-boat towed her to Folkestone, reaching her moorings at 12.45. Rewards to the crew etc., £8. 13s..