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A Dinghy (1)

DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Falmouth, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 30th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with one man on board appeared to be in difficulties off Shag Rock, St. Anthony Head. The life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare left her moorings at 4.10 in a moderate northerly wind and a corresponding sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat found the dinghy ashore between St. Anthony Head and Zone Point and took her in tow to St. Mawes. She then returned to her station, arriving at 6.14..