MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN DENSE FOG Walmer, Kent. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that shouts for help had been heard from the promenade from the direction of the sea, and a watchman was sent to North Deal to investigate.

The watchman heard further shouts, and the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 3.46.

The weather was calm, but there was dense fog. The life-boat quickly found four anglers in a motor boat, which had engine trouble, drifting north of Sandown Castle. She took the motor boat in tow and reached her station at 5.15..