OCTOBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.27 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands, about six miles away to the east. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 2.55, and at four o’clock found the S.S. W. R.

Grace, of Baltimore, U.S.A. She was a ship of about 8,000 tons, bound from Amsterdam for Cardiff, with a crew of forty. The Dover tug Lady Duncannon was in attendance.

The life-boat put two men on board the steamer, and stood by. She also took officers from the tug to the steamer. At 7.45 the W. R. Grace refloated on the rising tide, and the life-boat escorted her to the Downs, where she anchored at 9.5 that morning. The life-boat then took her two men off the steamer and returned to her station, which she reached a t 1 0 . 1 5 . T h e c a p t a i n o f t h e s t e a m e r expressed his thanks to the life-boat crew.- Property salvage case..