Dover, Kent. At 12.51 on the after- noon of the llth of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two people were cut off by the tide two hundred yards south of St.

Margaret's Bay. There was a light to moderate north-westerly wind with a slight sea. The weather was fine. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 1.17, two hours before high water, with a dinghy in tow. On reaching the position the bowman and a member of the life-boat's crew landed and picked up a man and a woman and returned with them to the life-boat. They were given hot drinks and wrapped in blankets and landed at Dover harbour.

The lift-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 2.15..