NOVEMBER 2ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 4.20 P.M. a fishing vessel about 1 1/2 miles N.E. of the life-boat station was seen to be flying a distress signal. A strong S.W. wind, increasing to gale force, was blowing. There was a heavy sea. At 4.40 P.M. the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched and found the local fishing boat Little Billy with her engine broken down.

She had two men on board, father and son, cousins of the life-boat’s coxswain. The life-boat took her in tow and slowly brought her in. She returned to her station at 5.30 P.M. - Reward, £21 12s.