SEPTEMBER 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

At 10.32 at night a message was received through the coastguard from a tug attending on the S.S. Helena Modjeska, which had gone aground east of North West Goodwin Buoy on the 12th of September, that a motor boat anchored alongside the steamer had fouled her propeller and needed help. The water was shallow and the tug herself could not get to her. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 10.45 and found the motor boat King John, of Dover, with two on board. Floating cordage had become entangled round her propeller and the ebbing tide was drawing her over the sands.

The life-boatmen cleared away a mass of floating cordage and took the motor boat in tow. She was then told that there were six salvage men on the steamer, returned, took the men on board, and towed the motor boat to Ramsgate, arriving back at her station at 12.55 next morning. - Rewards, £10 14s..