A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and sounds came at us out of that wreathing, vaporous fog.' Although they got within 500 yards of the lightship the men had to return.

On the third attempt, a suitable tide carried the galley straight to the lightship, and the sailors enjoyed the missionary's three-hour stay, and gifts of fruit, flowers, vegetables, newspapers and the inevitable woollen wear from the ladies. It was a glorious evening when the boatmen returned, but the wind had dropped and the crew were obliged to row home. 'Our splendid boat, though built for speed and strength under sail, was too weighty and too big for rowing'—but row they did, the whole 20 miles, dressed in cumbersome sea boots, sou-westers and oilskins.

As local honorary secretary to the R.N.L.I., Treanor was responsible for the Kingsdown, Walmer and Deal life-boat stations. He rarely accompanied the life-boat crew, but remained ashore ready to offer spiritual comfort to returning rescuers and survivors. In his book, Heroes of the Goodwin Sands, he describes graphically many of these heroic rescue attempts by local boatmen of men and ships held fast on the Goodwin Sands, that great sandbank eight miles long and four miles wide, whose shape and currents are changing hourly, lying in wait right in the highway of shipping, the dreaded 'ship-swallower'.

Treanor arranged for 12 almshouses and a large beach plot and capstan grounds to be made available for retired boatmen, and when he died in November, 1910, a new mission motor-boat, Stanley Treanor, was named after him. His successor was the Rev. P. L. Negus.

The Downs mission station was the last station doing work afloat at sea, and before his death Treanor had reported seeing only 1,840 ships at anchor in a single year, but by the time of the mission's closure in 1931 the work was practically limited to visits to the Goodwin lightships with the customary Christmas hampers.

Mr. T. G. Bedwell Mr T. G. Bedwell, of Beaconsfield, Bucks., who died recently, gave, together with his wife, the life-boat which is now on service at the Gorleston and Great Yarmouth station. This boat was one of the first of the 44-foot steel class of life-boat to be introduced into the service of the R.N.L.I., and few things gave Mr. Bedwell greater pleasure than to learn of the outstanding achievements of the Khami and her crew in saving life at sea..