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Siox Kayak

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.20 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy was in diffi- culties two miles east of Dungeness Point. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 9.40 in a fresh south- westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was high water. When the life-boat reached the position, she found that the dinghy Siox Kayak had capsized and that her sole occupant was clinging to her. The man was picked up and the dinghy taken in tow. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 11.3.

Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s..