SEPT. 27TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.45 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind.

At 7.5 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched. She found the motor barge Halcyon, of Hull, with a crew of three. She was then gradually drawing away from the shore, and the lifeboat escorted her into deep water. The lifeboat returned to her station at 8.20 A.M.

Eight minutes later another coastguard message was received that the Halcyon was again drifting ashore. The life-boat put out a second time at 9 A.M. Six minutes later the Ramsgate motor life-boat Prudential, also put out in response to a message from the coastguard that the Halcyon was driving ashore a mile north of Sandown Castle. She found the barge striking the ground, got ropes aboard her, with considerable difficulty ; and took her in tow. Shortly afterwards the Walmer life-boat arrived on the scene, but, as her help was not needed, she returned to her station, which she reached at 11.30 A.M.

The Ramsgate life-boat, with the barge in tow, reached Ramsgate at 10.57 A . M . - Rewards : Walmer, first launch, £9 13s. 6d., second launch, £9 13s. 6d. ; Ramsgate, Property salvage case..