Dungeness, Kent. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1959, thecoastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off St.

Mary's Bay and that a child was thought to be in it. At 5.35 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a choppy sea. There was a moderate westerly wind, and it was high water. The life- boat found the rubber dinghy empty.

She continued to search but found nothing, and after taking the dinghy aboard finally returned to her station, which she reached at 8.30. Aircraft from Lydd also took part in the search.

Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £18 4s..