MAN AND BOY CUT OFF BY TIDE Walmer, Kent. At 3.39 on the afternoon of Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boatman returning from St. Margaret's with a fishing party had seen two people cut off by the tide between the Royal Marine rifle butts and the Dover Patrol Memorial. Because of rocks the boatman was unable to get close enough to take them off.

The reserve life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 4.20 towing a small rowing dinghy. There was a light south-westerly wind and a slight sea. It was high water. On reaching the position the second coxswain and one member of the life-boat's crew rowed ashore in the dinghy and ferried a man and a boy out to the life-boat. She then returned to her station, arriving at 5.55..