DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.

About 8.40 in the morning a message was received that a steamer was aground off Walmer Castle. A light north-north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 8.45 and found the S.S. Empire Kinsman, of Sunderland, bound for London from Le Havre.

The life-boat put a man on board and although no immediate help was needed the master asked her to stand by. She stood by until eleven o’clock, when the steamer refloated and got under way. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 11.30. - Rewards, £14 12s.