When on 20th June the Bermuda rigged yacht Keg with one man aboard ran aground about half a mile south west of the NE Victory wreck on the Goodwin Sands, the Walmer, Kent, lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32}—she is a42-foot beach type—went to her aid with the local inshore rescue boat.

At 7.55 p.m. the rescue boats came up with the yacht Keg high and dry some eight feet above the surrounding sea. The IRB ferried the coxswain of the life-boat to the sands and he waded to the boat and boarded her. Assisted by the IRB, the yacht's anchor was run out to hold her as the tide made. With the IRB then sounding for a channel to open water, the lifeboat nosed her way to the boat in very shallow water. The second coxswain and a life-boat crew member were put aboard, and the yacht was refloated at about 10 o'clock..