Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1951, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a man was in difficulties in a sailing dinghy off Littlestone. At 1.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly breeze blowing.

She found the dinghy three miles south of Hythe, rescued the man and towed the dinghy to her station.

This she reached at 4.20.—Rewards, £28 9*..