NOV. 23RD. - MARGATE, KENT. At 9.55 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard asking that the lifeboat should bc launched, go to the North Foreland, and stop all shipping as it was a dangerous area. A fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 10.5 A.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched.

She stopped one vessel, telling her to return to Ramsgate, but at 11.25 A.M. the guardship S.S.. Goodwin signalled the life-boat that her services were no longer needed, and the lifeb o a t r e t u r n e d t o h e r s t a t i o n a t n o o n . - Rewards, £9 8s..