JANUARY 18TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 7.5 at night the Lade coastguard reported a small vessel ashore east-by-north of Lade, but not in need of help. A strong southeasterly wind was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The weather was bitterly cold, with snow. The life-boat crew assembled, and at 8.40 saw the vessel refloat, go a short way, stop, and burn distress signals. At 9.10 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched and found that the vessel was the motor cabin cruiser Kinuna, of Southampton, homeward bound from Rochester with two men and two girls, the daughters of the master. She had sprung a leak and her engine-room was flooded. The master asked for a tow, and a rope was passed to him.

After half an hour he decided to abandon the cruiser, as she was now unmanageable, with her bow almost under water. The girls were the first to be rescued, and were almost exhausted through exposure to the wet and cold. All the four were landed at 11.45 at Dungeness and taken to the life-boat house to be revived with rum and biscuits. The cruiser foundered, and the rescued left for Southampton in the morning by train.- Rewards, £35 3s. 6d..