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MAN FOUND AFTER EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Portree had reported that a man was calling for help from his dinghy off the north shore of Loch BrakadaJe. At one o'clock the life-boat The Rankin put out in a moderate north-easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the area at 3.20 and for more than eight hours carried out a search with the help of a helicopter. At 12.55 the life-boat found the dinghy and rescued the man. He was landed at Glen Brittle, where a doctor was waiting to examine him. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at nine o'clock..