Dover, Kent.—In the evening of the 8th of May, 1952, a moderate southerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and at 6.5 Lloyd's Signal Station reported two men in a rowing boat outside the harbour. At 6.30 the life- boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings.

She found the rowing boat Elizebeth Mary north-east of Dover. She res- cued the men, who were soaked through, gave them hot soup, and towed their boat to Dover, reaching their station again at 7.20.—Rewards, £5 10*..