Margate, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 18th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the police had reported that a dinghy had capsized and that two boys were in the water half a mile off Minnis Bay. At 5.1 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. 11 was launched in a rough sea. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing and the tide was half flood. The life-boat came up with the sailing dinghy Lady Elizabeth, of Birchington, a quarter of a mile west of Minnis Bay, but the crew could not see the two boys. The life- boat went close in shore, and the police then told the coxswain that the boys had come ashore. The life-boat took the dinghy on board and returned to her station, arriving at 9.45.— Re\vards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..