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Widgeon II

Walmer, Kent. At 8.56 on the even- ing of the 21st of September, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched in a rough sea. A south- westerly gale was blowing and there was an ebb tide. The life-boat set off parachute flares and found the yacht Widgeon II, with a crew of two, between the south-west and south Goodwin buoys. She took her in tow to Walmer, arriving at 11.59. Pro- perty salvage case..