Walmer, Kent - At 5.55 p.m. on 3rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting about outside the South Brake buoy. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 6.36 in a fresh south westerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. On reaching the casualty, the sloop Selkie of Poole, with a man, a woman and two children on board, it was found that she had no steering and was drifting helplessly in the shipping fairway. She was taken in tow to Ramsgate and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.15..