Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing tide.

As no other boat was available the NO.

1 motor life-boat, Henry Blogg, was launched at 3.40. A fresh south- westerly breeze blowing, with a slight swell. The life-boat came up with the bather one mile north east by east of the pier, took him and his dinghy on board, and returned to her station, arriving at 4.30.-—Re- wards, £8 9s..