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A Dinghy (9)

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.38 on the morning of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were at the Nab Light in a small sailing dinghy and needed a tow to Bembridge. They had been drifting in fog for most of the night. There was a gentle south- easterly breeze with a slight sea. At 8.5 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched on an ebbing tide. She made for the Nab Light, took the two boys on board, and with the dinghy in tew returned to her station at 10.10..