Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the after- noon of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that two boys in a rubber dinghy were going round in circles three-quarters of a mile off Cliftonville. At 4.58 they telephoned that the boys were now in distress off Whiteness, and the life-boat Lord South- borough, Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 5.6. A fresh westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The life-boat found the dinghy three miles oft North Foreland, and the boys who were brothers, suffering from exposure. They were taken into the life-boat, given restoratives and wrapped in blankets. The life-boat returned to Margate, arriving at 6.15, and the boys were landed and taken to a waiting ambulance. — Rewards, £8 165..