North Deal, Kent.—The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at about 1 A.M. on the 3rd October, in response to signals from the Gull Lightship, during a strong westerly breeze. The boat proceeded to the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and there found the steamer Rivulet, of London, ashore.

The vessel was bound from Pensacola to Grimsby with a cargo of timber baulks. As soon as the Life-boat got alongside, the captain engaged the crew to assist him in saving the vessel and her crew of twenty-six hands.

Heavy seas were breaking all round the vessel, but the Life-boat succeeded in laying out two anchors with wire hawsers attached, and by this means, and with the assistance o£ a tug, the vessel was refloated just before high water. The boat then returned to her station, where she arrived at 12.SO P.M.