Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that the Rye police had reported that a boy swimming off Camber was drifting out to sea. At 5.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launch- ed. The sea was smooth, the weather was fine, and it was two and a half hours before low water. The life- boat made a search, accompanied by a helicopter and two other aircraft. The helicopter spotted the boy and hovered over him, and the life-boat picked him up. Her crew gave him artificial respiration and made for Camber Sands. There the life-boat, using her loud hailer, asked for a doctor from the crowds on the beach. Two went to the life-boat, and the boy was taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.30. The boy lost his life.—Rewards to the crew, £18 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £23 11s..