DINGHIES AND CANOES IN TROUBLE IN CHOPPY SEA Swanage, Dorset. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fibre-glass dinghy with an outboard motor was in difficulties on Peveril Ledge, but before the maroons could be fired it was learnt that the dinghy's owner, who was not on board at the time, had already put out in another boat and had taken his dinghy in tow.

Shortly afterwards three kayak-type canoes were seen in broken water on Peveril Ledge and one of them capsized.

The coxswain fired the maroons, and the life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 3.26 in a light south-easterly breeze.

There was a choppy sea, and it was two hours after high water. The owner of the fibre-glass dinghy, on hearing the maroons, returned to the ledge and picked up the capsized canoe and the one man in it. The other two canoes were able to reach safety. When the lifeboat reached the ledge she found yet another dinghy with an outboard motor in difficulties with the strong tide. She took this dinghy, which had a crew of two, in tow and reached her station at 3.50..