A Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1956, a resident of Roa Island reported that a sixteen-feet dinghy had capsized in Walney Channel. At 2.30 the life- boat Herbert Leigh was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a moderate north-westerly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the dinghy and her crew of two, who were up to their shoulders in the sea off Piel Island and were attempting to right their boat. They were taken aboard the life-boat and given rum and dry clothes. With the dinghy in tow, the life-boat brought them to Roa Island, arriving there at 3.20.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..