THIRD MAN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized off Coopers Beach, East Mersea, and that two people were clinging to the hull.

At 1.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at low water in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. She found the sailing dinghy Oberon of Brightlingsea, which had had a crew of three, two of them had been rescued by a rowing boat, which had also put out from shore. The life-boat rescued the third man, took him to Brightlingsea, and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.35..