CAPSIZED DINGHY TOWED IN Torbay, Devon. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 21st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized about a quarter of a mile east of Berry Head and that a sailing yawl appeared to be searching around the capsized dinghy. This seemed to indicate that someone was missing, and the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent therefore left her moorings at 3.8 in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was an hour before low water.

As the life-boat approached the position of the capsized dinghy, the coxswain was hailed by the crew of another small yacht, who reported that they had rescued a man and a woman and that no one was missing. The coxswain decided to take the capsized dinghy in tow to Brixham, and after the dinghy had been righted and baled out the life-boat towed her to her station, arriving at 4.30..