HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at 11.55 the lifeboat B.H.M.H. was launched. There was a south-south-easterly gale with a rough sea and a flooding tide. A helicopter from Chivenor took off, and at 12.22 the Weston-super-Mare life-boat Calouste Gulbenkian was also launched.

Both life-boats made for the position, but the helicopter found the fishing dinghy E286 four miles off Watchet and rescued the two men. The helicopter landed them on the beach, and the Minehead life-boat towed the dinghy to her station, arriving at 2.15. The Weston-super-Mare life-boat was recalled to her station, which she reached at 1.15..