Walmer, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 15th of October, 1955, the Ramsgaie life-boat put off to search for a ten-feet dinghy which had been missing from Broadstairs, with one man on board, since four o'clock. She searched widely in company with a helicopter, but nothing was found.

At 9.15 on the morning of the 16th the coxswain of the Walmer life-boat saw the dinghy near the South Good- win lightvessel, and ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 was launched. She made for the position in a moderate sea, with a fresh north-north-west wind blowing and a flooding tide, and came up with the dinghy about one mile south-south-east of the light- vessel. The life-boat then rescued the man, took the dinghy in tow, and returned to her station, arriving at 11.25.—Rewards to the crew, £13 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £20 2s..