Dover, Kent.—At half past six in the evening of the 13th of August, 1949, a rowing boat which had been stolen from Dover was reported to be between St. Margarets Bay and Langdon Bay with two men on board. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 6.50 and, with a rowing boat in tow, put out in a south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea running. She found the two men on the rocks in Langdon Bay.

Four life-boatmen went ashore in the small boat, and brought the two men and the stolen boat off to the life-boat.

She arrived back at Dover at 8.10.— Rewards, £6 15s..