Walmer, Kent. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 25th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a fishing dinghy off the Goodwin Fork buoy were un- able to make headway and were drifting northwards on the ebb tide. There was a light east-north-easterly wind with a slight sea. At 4.35 the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched. A local boat, which was fishing in the area, went alongside the dinghy and took her in tow before the life-boat reached the scene. The life- boat later took over the tow and brought the dinghy into Deal..