SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WALMER, KENT.

At 12.30 in the afternoon the sailing barge Monarch, of Rochester, hoisted a distress signal. She had anchored in the Downs, but was dragging towards a submerged wreck. A moderate south-south-west gale was blowing, and the sea was very rough. The motor lifeboat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.45 and found the barge, with two men and a woman on board.

The second-coxswain and several life-boatmen went on board. A tow-rope was passed to them and they fixed it. It held the barge’s head to windward while the life-boatmen hove up her anchor. The life-boat then towed her clear of the wreck. The barge’s sails were then set and, with the life-boat second-coxswain in charge, she sailed for Ramsgate with the lifeboat in attendance. A mile from Ramsgate the life-boat took a rope from the barge, towed her into the harbour and moored her there. She reached her station again at 4.30.

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