NOV. 2 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 4.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had been damaged by enemy action about one and a half miles E.N.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A light S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched. She could find nothing at the position given. She then went to a vessel which was flashing a light two miles to the east, and found it to be a minesweeper.

There were four injured men on board. They were the only survivors of the vessel which had been sunk, the S.S. Rubis Law, and they were taken on board the life-boat, which then returned to Margate, where doctors and ambulances were waiting. After landing the survivors, the life-boat returned to her station at 7.15 P.M. - Rewards, £23 6s..