Dungeness, Kent.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the New Romney police telephoned that a lady at Littlestone had reported that a sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, was being blown seawards off Littlestone. At twelve noon the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was rough, and a strong westerly breeze was blowing.

The life-boat made a search in an ebb- ing tide and found the dinghy eight miles north-east of the life-boat station, about five miles off Littlestoiie. Her crew had been unable to hoist their sail and had had to depend on a paddle.

The life-boat rescued them and towed the dinghv to Littlestone, arriving at 2.30.—Rewards, £28..