Dover, Kent. At 1.27 on the after- noon of the 12th September, 1961, a report was received that a small boat with one man on board was in diffi- culties west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moor- ings at 1.46 in a fresh west-south- westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The life- boat took the boat in tow and reached her station at 2.30..