THREE MEN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY CAPSIZES Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 24th May, 1962, the police informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Douglas Bay about a quarter of a mile off shore.

The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was launched seven minutes later in a fresh north-westerly and a choppy sea.

It was about two hours after high water.

The life-boat picked up two men, who were clinging to the dinghy, and also a third man who had attempted to swim ashore. This man had been carried with the ebb tide and cross wind to a point opposite the war memorial and was about four hundred yards off shore when he was rescued. All the men were wearing life-jackets. They were landed at the Peveril steps, where the man who had attempted to swim ashore collapsed.

He was taken by police car to hospital, where he was detained. The life-boat then returned to the dinghy and after righting her towed her into Douglas harbour. The life-boat finally reached her station at 5.45..