Walmer, Kent. At 10.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Channel Rover of Dover was drifting towards Deal with her engines out of order. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched five minutes later in a light north-north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was two and a half hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the Channel Rover in the Downs and towed her to Dover harbour, arriving back at her station at four o'clock..