Walmer, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report that a sailing yacht with a number of people on board was aground on the rocks near the Royal Marines rifle range at Kingsdown.

Visibility was very poor when the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

32) was launched at 1.23. It was low water and there was a light north- easterly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat found the yacht Tadpole a- ground about one hundred yards off shore. There were two children, a woman and two men on board. All offers of help were refused by the owner of the yacht, but the life-boat stood by in case her services were needed. After an hour and a half the yacht refloated unaided. One member of the life-boat crew, who had been put aboard to help with the anchor, was taken off, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.35..