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A Sailing Dinghy (1)

Selsey, Sussex. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952.

the West Wittering police reported that a fourteen-feet sailing dinghy, which had a crew of two from H.M.S.

Collingwood, had capsized about four hundred yards off shore near a wreck on the Winner Bank. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 3.40 in a rough sea with a fresh south- westerly breeze blowing. A latermessage stated that one of the men had swum to the wreck and that the other had reached the shore. With difficulty, because of shallow water, the life-boat rescued the man from the wreck, took him to Selsey, and reached her station again at 6.45 that evening.—Rewards, £11 17s..