At 9.35 A.M. on the 25th March the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the Good- wins, two miles W.S.W. of East Goodwin light-vessel. The motor life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 9.50 A.M. and found her to be the Greek steamer K. Ktistakis, of Chios, bound, with a cargo of coal, from Dantzig to Italy.

She was not in immediate danger, but the life-boat stood by all day, until high water in the evening. Then, as the steamer's captain did not want any help, the life-boat put back to her station, arriving there at 11.50 P.M.

A light N.N.W. wind was blowing during the day and the sea was smooth.

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