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FISHERMAN SIGHTS CASUALTY FROM TREE TOP Swanage, Dorset. At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1962, a fisherman reported to the honorary secretary that he had seen, from the top of a tree, a fishing vessel drifting a mile off Durlston Bay. At 4.35 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a light south-westerly breeze, the sea was smooth, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the motor fishing vessel Lundy of Jersey, with one man on board, at anchor one mile south of Peveril Point. The Lundy was on passage from Ventnor to Portland, but her engines had broken down because of a blocked fuel pipe. A member of the life-boat crew boarded her to weigh the anchor, and the life-boat then towed the vessel to Swanage Bay, arriving back at her station at 5.40..