JANUARY 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.55 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that two ship’s boats had been seen near the Tongue Light-vessel.

A southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 4.5 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched and, on reaching the light-vessel, found that she had on board the crew of twenty-four of the S.S. Towneley, which hadstruck a mine and had sunk. The life-boat landed the twenty-four men at Margate at 6.35 P.M. - Rewards, £14 2s..