LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

A Sailing Dinghy

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 3.31 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1953, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile from the coast- guard station, and that two boys were clinging to it. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched, at 3.40, and a shore-boat put off from Forelands about the same time in a moderate sea with a light south-westerly breeze blowing. The shore-boat rescued the boys, and the life-boat towed the dinghy to her station, which she reached again at 4.15. — Rewards, £5 10s..