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A Dinghy (1)

Dungeness, Kent. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea off Littlestone. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a rough sea. A strong south- westerly wind was blowing and it was high water. The life-boat found the dinghy with four people on board between Dymchurch and Hythe. They were taken aboard the life-boat, which picked up the dinghy and reached her station at 3.15. Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £16 18s..