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Wendy

Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.30. in the afternoon of Sunday the llth of July, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized half a mile off Winchelsea beach, and the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.45. A strong west-south- west breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. She found the sailing dinghy Wendy upturned, but no trace of her crew of three. One had swam ashore, two others had been picked up by a speed boat. The life-boatmen righted the dinghy, baled her out and took her in tow, arriving back at their station at 5.45.—Rewards, £29 19s..