TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril Point. Nine minutes later the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a moderate south-south-west breeze, the sea was choppy, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy Puffin, with five young men on board, threequarters of a mile south of Peveril Point.

They had rigged a sail on the stump of the mast and were rowing for the shore, but the tide was carrying them towards Durlston Head. The life-boat took the Puffin in tow and returned to her station, arriving at 4.5. The father of one of the young men made a donation to the funds of the Institution..