MAY 22ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.30 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer anchored near the South Goodwins had on board four survivors from the S.S. Firth Fisher, of Barrow. She had been mined and had sunk. The men were injured and urgently needed a doctor.

With a strong easterly wind blowing and a heavy swell along shore, the weather was too bad for the ordinary shore motor boats to go out, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 2.50 A.M., with a doctor on board. She brought the four men of the Firth Fisher ashore and they were taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.25 A.M. - Rewards, £19 7s..