APRIL 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. Late at night a doctor received a call from the Deal coastguard asking him to visit the American Liberty ship Ernest L. Grant, which was a quarter of a mile south of the South Goodwin Buoy. A strong north-east wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. It was too rough for an ordinary boat to take the doctor, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at midnight. Fifty minutes later she reached the steamer. One of the steamer’s crew had acute abdominal pains. The life-boat put the doctor on board, stood by, and re-embarked him at 1.50. She reached her station again at 2.45.- Rewards £20 14s..