Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1956, a shipping agent telephoned to say that the fishing boat Invictor, of Folkestone, was disabled with a broken shaft three- quarters of a mile south-east of the life-boat station. At 12.25 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a choppy sea. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze, and it was high tide. The life-boat found the fishing boat with a crew of three and began towing her to Folkestone.

Later the tow was handed over to another boat from Folkestone, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving back at 2.45.—Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £18 17s..