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A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again that the Milford police had reported the upturned dinghy drifting towards Hurst Castle with a person clinging to her. The life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings at once. The sea was moderate with a moderate south-easterly breeze blow- ing. The life-boat found the dinghy off Barton, but no one was clinging to it. Her drop-keel had looked like a person. The life-boat towed the dinghy to Yarmouth, arriving at 9.10 that night. The man who had been in the dinghy had been picked up by another boat.—Rewards, £4 10s..