IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles northeast of Dungeness, and that the German vessel required life-boat assistance. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 3.11 in a moderate west-south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. After steaming for two miles, the coastguard reported that the position of the casualty was two miles south-west of Dungeness, and the lifeboat altered course and met the vessel steaming at four knots under her own power. The life-boat escorted her to a position three miles north-east of Dungeness until a tug boat arrived. The captain of the Ferdinand Retzlaff then said that the services of the life-boat were no longer required, and she returned to her station at 4.55 a.m..