OCTOBER 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.35 in the morning, the Deal coastguard reported a steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at seven o’clock. The tide was low, and she could not get near the steamer, but as it rose her coxswain took her over the sands, grounding several times, steered her between two wrecks and reached the steamer. She was the Birte, of Copenhagen, timber laden, with a crew of eighteen, bound from Sweden to the Bristol Channel. Four life-boatmen went on board her and then, with the help of the motor boat Rose Marie, the life-boat laid out a kedge anchor. The Birte re-floated at ten o’clock and the life-boat piloted her to the Downs, where she anchored at 11.45.

The life-boat re-embarked her four men, and arrived back at her station at 12.40 in the afternoon. - Property salvage case..