Dover, Kent. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1960, the police re- ported that a number of people had been cut off by the tide at Fan Bay.

The life-boat Southern Africa put out, towing her boarding boat, in a moderate southerly breeze and a moderate sea.

It was one hour after high water. Thir- teen people were taken off the beach, transferred to the life-boat and landed at Camber. The life-boat arrived back at her station at eight o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £10; reward to the helper on shore, 5s..