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Dover, Kent.—At 7.45 on the even- ing of the 1st of August, 1952, H.M.

Customs Coastwatcher reported that two men were cut off by the tide between St. Margarets Bay and Dover, and at 8.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings, taking a.

dinghy with her. There was a moder- ate sea, with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing. The life-boat found the men between Fan Bay and St.

Margarets Bay. They were holiday- makers from Birmingham and had wandered over the roeks towards Dover. The dinghy took them on board and transferred them to the life-boat, which returned at 10.0 that night. The men made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Re- wards, £4 15s..