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The lifeboat launched to a report of two people cut
off by the tide off Swalecliffe. As the lifeboat was proceeding, Herne Bay
Coastguard reported that the people had now got into a small dinghy, and
were heading slowly towards the shore.
The lifeboat came alongside the dinghy to find that
the occupants were fishermen. They had got out onto the sandbank for a walk,
and had not been in any difficulty.
The lifeboat therefore returned to station.
Their dinghy, being on the seaward side of the bank,
had not been initially visible to either the first informant or the
Coastguard, and so it had appeared that the two men were on the bank with no
means of getting ashore.
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