Exmouth, Devon.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1956.

the coastguard reported that a man who could not swim was stranded on a sandbank near the River Otter.

The life-boat Maria Noble was launched at 7.4. There was a smooth sea, with light south-south-east airs and a flooding tide. The life-boat made for Otterton Head, where four scouts on the cliff indicated that the man was near Brandy Head. The man was found marooned on a very narrow piece of rock, with the tide rising and lapping the ledge. The life-boat man- aged to come alongside the cliff face and to take the man off. She arrived back at her station at 8.45.—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £13 6s..