OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.25 in the morning the Deal coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a vessel ashore on the Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 5.45, and an hour later found the Swedish steamer Magna, of Helsingborg, ashore on the South Caliper Sands. She was laden with silk pulp and had a crew of twenty-one.

Several life-boatmen went on board her, and, with the help of the motor boats Rose Marie and Golden Spray, the life-boat laid out a kedge anchor. At six o’clock the steamer refloated, and, accompanied by the life-boat, went to the Downs, where she anchored at 9.10. The life-boat took off her men and returned to her station, arriving at ten o’clock that morning. - Property salvage case.