Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At 2.45, when the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on tem- porary duty at the station, was laun- ched, it was high water and there was a moderate north-westerly wind with a moderate sea. The life-boat made for a position eight miles south of Dunge- ness and found the German ship standing by the sailing dinghy Pippa of Shoreham, which had three people on board. The dinghy was shipping water and could make no headway, and the life-boat took her in tow to Folkestone harbour. While the life-boat was in the harbour a message came through that a boy was being swept out to sea off Dymchurch. The life-boat immediately made for the position given, but when it was learnt that the boy was safe, she returned to her station, arriving at 12.20..