DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.

At 8.20 A.M. the Deal coastguard asked for the life-boat crew to be assembled. At 9.18 A.M. a further message came that vessel was over the Brake Sands, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 9.30 A.M. A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain squalls and a heavy sea. The life-boat found the Admiralty L.C.T. 534 in a dangerous position with stern anchor down. She had a crew of twelve. The life-boat’s second-coxswain went aboard her, and at the request o the officer in charge the life-boat escorted the vessel to the Downs. There an armed trawler arrived and took over, and the lifeboat reached her station again at 11.30 A.M.

- Rewards, £15 14s.