TWO SURVIVORS FROM CATAMARAN LANDED Dungeness, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized and that two people were in the water off Greatstone. The life-boat Mabel E.

Holland was launched at 2.46 in a strong south-westerly wind and a choppy sea.

The tide was half ebb. A helicopter was also sent to help in the search. When the life-boat reached the position it was found that two small motor dinghies had picked up the survivors but that one of the dinghies had run short of fuel.

After she had taken the survivors on board the life-boat towed this dinghy to Greatstone. The survivors and the dinghy were landed and the life-boat then returned to the capsized catamaran and took her in tow. The lifeboat finally reached her station at 4.50..