JANUARY 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

At 8.10 in the morning information was received from the pier that a steamer was in danger of grounding in Pegwell Bay, and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 8.25. A moderate west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the steamer, the Amethyst aground half a mile south-west of Ramsgate harbour.

No one was on board. She returned at 9.26.

At 1.10 in the afternoon the harbour master pointed out the danger if the steamer, with no one on board, refloated on the rising tide, and the life-boat was again launched at 1.25, and put life-boatmen on board the steamer.

It was found later that she had been on her way to Antwerp for repairs in tow of a tug.

The tug had anchored her in the Downs, but her anchors had dragged. At 2.45 a salvage tug arrived and took her in tow for the Downs, escorted by the life-boat. The towing wire parted, but a fresh wire was fixed. After seeing the steamer and the tug safely in the Downs, the life-boat reached her station at 8.8 that evening. Rewards: first service, £8 3s. ; second service, £1 3s. and property salvage case.