JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was moderate, with a freshening west-south-west wind. The lifeboat found the American steamer Fort Perrot at anchor two miles east-north-east of Dungeness.

The steamer, which had been in convoy, was on fire, presumably from enemy action, and was at anchor. Her captain said that he had four injured men on board and asked the life-boat to take them ashore to hospital. This the life-boat did and returned to the Fort Perrot and stood by until other help reached her. She then returned to her station, arriving at 6.45. The service was carried out under a continuous barrage and the life-boatmen and helpers had no cover.- Rewards, £28 2s. 3d..