LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick Bay by the rapidly increasing west-south-westerly breeze. Shortly afterwards the coastguard telephoned to say the dinghy had overturned. There was by this time a fresh breeze blowing from the west-south-west and a choppy sea. The weather was fine. The life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched at 11.9 and reached the position given at 11.15. The two occupants of the dinghy had been transferred to the yacht and the dinghy was recovered by a motor boat from the Berwick sailing and canoe club. The life-boat stood by until all the boats were safely back and then returned to her station, arriving at 11.55..