Dungeness, Kent. At 7.10 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Dymchurch. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate north-easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was half ebb.

The life-boat found the sailing dinghy, and the life-boat crew righted her and baled her out. The dinghy was then handed over to the occupants of a small boat, who had earlier rescued her crew of two. The life-boat reached her station at 9.20. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £16 16s..