CABIN CRUISER TOWED INTO HARBOUR Walmer, Kent. At 5.38 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been seen two miles off shore east of the look-out. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched in a moderate southerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Picquigny at anchor with a crew of three. Her engine had broken down, and she was leaking badly. The lifeboat took her in tow and berthed her alongside the west pier at Ramsgate.

The life-boat reached her station at 10.15..