Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw through a telescope three men in a metal dinghy. They had put off to try to recover a rubber dinghy, which was drifting out to sea three miles north-east of the life-boat station.

The men were also drifting seawards and were waving for help. At 2.32 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched, with the second coxswain in charge.

The sea was rough, there was a strong west-south-west wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the metal dinghy on the southern part of the Cockle Bank, rescued the men, and gave them rum. She then picked up the rubber dinghy and returned to her station, arriving at8.30. The parents of one of the men made a gift to the life-boat crew.—Re- wards to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £6 6s..