Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station, put out. taking a dinghy with her. The sea was choppy, there was a moderate south-westerly breeze, and it was one hour before high water.

The life-boat found the soldiers on rocks, and two members of the life- boat crew manned the dinghy and rescued them. They were then trans- ferred to the life-boat, which took them to Dover, arriving at 1.15.—Re- wards to the crew, £4 10s.; reward to the helper on shore, 5s..