At 3.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two teenagers who had set out soon after breakfast in a rubber dinghy had not returned.

In view of the dense fog and the number of boats which had gone out fishing the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 3.35. The tide was flooding. The life-boat advised the boats to return ashore and she escorted four of them to safety. The missing boys got ashore at Kingsdown without assistance.

The life-boat returned to her station at 7.15..