Walmer, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Teddy Bear, which was two miles east of the Goodwin Fork buoy, had engine trouble and her crew were trying to row ashore against wind and tide. At 5.13 the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

32) was launched. There was a moderate south-westerly wind and sea and it was two and a half hours before high water.

The life-boat reached the motor boat at 5.27 and found that the motor boat's owner had gone to her help in another boat. The life-boat escorted both boats to Walmer and returned to her station at 5.45..