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A Dinghy (7)

TWO RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED DINGHY Dungeness, Kent. At 12.24 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary honorary secretary that a dinghy had overturned about a hundred yards off shore south of the look-out. There were two people clinging to the upturned boat.

The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 12.28 in a light southwesterly wind and a choppy sea. It was high water. The life-boat reached the position, rescued the two people in the water and landed them at Lade.

She then returned and towed the capsized dinghy ashore and finally reached her station at 1.45..