Walmer, Kent. — At 6.23 on the night of the 21st of December, 1951, a vessel was reported to be on the Goodwin Sands in Trinity Bay, and at 6.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was launched.

The weather was calm. She found the S.S. Noreg, of Gothenburg, with a crew of twenty-two, bound in ballast for Bilbao, hard aground. When still a hundred yards from her she grounded herself, but when the tide rose she went alongside and at the master's request laid out a kedge anchor. A tug helped to refloat her, and towed her to Goodwin Fork, but in casting off the towing wire the Noreg's chief officer was seriously injured. The life-boat immediately fetched a doctor put him aboard the steamer, and then brought him and the injured man ashore where an ambulance was wait- ing. It was then 7.30 the next morning.—Property Salvage Case..