FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.

A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 7.50 A.M. and found that the two Belgian steamers Kabalo and Flandres, both of Antwerp, had been in collision. The latter had only received her papers from the contraband control an hour or two earlier.

She was badly damaged and sinking, only the captain and two officers being on board.

The rest of the crew, between 40 and 50 men, had already left in motor boats. The lifeboat took off the three officers and stood by until 11 A.M. The steamer’s decks were then down to water level. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.35 A.M. - Rewards, £14 12s. 6d..