AUGUST 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.52 in the morning the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel lying on the Goodwin Sands.

He telephoned the coastguard station for confirmation and at 9.40 the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. The sea was calm and the weather fine, but it was exceptionally low water, and the life-boat, as she launched, stuck on a sand-bank. She refloated as the tide began to flow. She found that the vessel was the Swedish schooner Elsy, of Vastervik, put down a kedge anchor and, with the help of the motor boat Golden Spray, towed her clear of the sands and escorted her into the Downs. The life-boat also helped to clear her fouled anchors, and brought her captain ashore. She reached her station again at 4.46 that afternoon. - Property salvage case..