Dover, Kent. At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard told the honorarysecretary that a small boat was in distress one mile north-east of Dover pier. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 2.30 in a southerly gale. There was a very rough sea, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Ellen of Roches- ter, with a crew of three, fifteen yards from the shore and took her in tow.

The life-boat reached her station at 3.20. Rewards to the crew, £10..