AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 9.12 at night the Ramsgate coastguard reported a sailing yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands. A light west-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was calm.

At 9.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched and found the American sailing yacht, Seafarer, bound for Gothenburg from New York, afloat, but surrounded by sandbanks.

Three life-boatmen went on board and piloted her into clearer water. She had broken her main boom when she first grounded and her sails and running gear were damaged.

At the master’s request the life-boat towed her into Ramsgate harbour and returned to her station, arriving at 10.55. - Rewards, 14s.

Property salvage case.