DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.

The naval officer-in-charge, Ramsgate, asked that a doctor should be taken to the American steamer James E. Haviland. A strong southwest wind was blowing and the sea was very rough. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 6.15 in the evening with a doctor and put him on board the James E. Haviland, near the South- West Goodwin Buoy. The life-boat waited, but the sea was running so high that the mooring ropes which held her to the steamer parted and she had to lie off until the doctor was ready to re-embark. With difficulty she took him on board again, but her rudder was damaged. She returned to her station at 8.35. - Rewards, £30 13s. 6d..