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A Dinghy

LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 19th March, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Great Orme's Head lighthouse that a dinghy had capsized seven hundred yards north-east of the lighthouse. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched at 1.15 in a moderate easterly wind and a slight sea. The tide was half ebb. At 1.32 the position of the dinghy was given as one mile north-west of the lighthouse, and the life-boat made for the new position and was joined in the search by a helicopter.

The dinghy was found one mile west of the lighthouse by the helicopter; which circled over the position until the lifeboat arrived. The life-boat towed the dinghy, which had no one on board, to her station, which she reached at 3.15..