FEBRUARY 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

At 3.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a message from the East Goodwin Light-vessel. She asked for the life-boat to be sent as she had on board survivors from a vessel which had been in collision. She also asked that the life-boat should keep a lookout for a missing boat. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 3.50. The westerly wind was light, the sea smooth, but there was dense fog. The life-boat found that the Dutch motor vessel Tyger had sunk after having been in collision with the American steamer Edward R. Squibb. The American steamer had launched two boats, and one had picked up the Tyger’s crew of seven and put them aboard the light-vessel, but the other boat had disappeared. The life-boat took on board the seven men of the Tyger, and the crew of seven of the ship’s boat which had rescued them. She then returned to Ramsgate, towing the ship’s boat, and arrived at 8.15 that morning. Lloyds’ agent at Dover telephoned at 3.25 in the afternoon that the Edward R. Squibb had been found at anchor in the South Downs, and that her missing boat had been picked up by a cross-channel steamer and taken to Dover. He asked that the life-boat should take the men of the Edward R. Squibb and their boat back to their ship. The life-boat Prudential put out again at 4.15 with the seven men and their boat, but she could not find the steamer. She searched for a long time and decided to go to Dover. Just then she saw a light through a break in the fog. It was the Edward R.

Squibb, at anchor, six miles east-north-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. She handed over to her the men and the boat at nine o’clock, and got back to Ramsgate at 11.30 that night. - Rewards : first service £19 11s. ; second service, no expense to the Institution..