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Eider Duckling

Walmer, Kent. At 2.38 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the South Goodwin lightvessel had reported a flashing light three miles east-north-east of her position. At 2.55 the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at low water in a gentle south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. She found the yacht Eider Duck- ling two miles east of the lightvessel with her mast and sail blown overboard and her engine broken down. She had a crew of four. The life-boat towed the yacht to Dover harbour, reaching her station at 7.5. Property salvage case..