Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.

buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

52) was launched at 3.59 in a light southerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water. She found the Panamanian motor vessel Pacific Trader lying in about a fathom of water. The life-boat stood by until the vessel refloated at 9 o'clock on the rising tide. Once afloat, the Pacific Trader continued her voyage and the lifeboat returned to her station, arriving at 10 o'clock..