Lavender
OCTOBER 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 5.35 in the morning the coastguard reported red flares at Goodwin Knoll. A moderate north-north-east breeze was blowing, but the sea was heavy. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 6.3 and found the yacht Lavender aground. She was sinking, and the three men on board were clinging, exhausted, in the rigging. The seas were too heavy and the water too shallow for the life-boat to go alongside, but, with difficulty, she was able to get a line to the men, hauled them through the surf, and took them on board. She arrived back at her station at 9.15 that morning. - Rewards, £9..