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A Small Metal Dinghy

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coxswain heard that a small metal dinghy with an outboard motor had not been seen since three o'clock. He informed the coastguard, and at 5.0 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a slight sea with a light southerly breeze blowing. She found the dinghy in South Filey Bay near Speeton, and took aboard a man and a woman, and then the dinghy itself, which had been unable to make any headway.

She reached her station again at 6.30.—Rewards, £12 2s..