MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of Peveril Point. The life-boat was launched at 3.44 in a gentle northwesterly breeze and a slight sea. It was two hours before low water. When the life-boat came up with the dinghy she found a man, a woman and a dog on board. The boat's outboard motor was not powerful enough to make any headway against the strong ebb tide.

The woman and the dog were taken on board the life-boat, but the man preferred to remain in the dinghy, which was taken in tow at slow speed as far as Peveril Ledge. The life-boat had to increase speed slightly to maintain headway, and the tow rope carried away the part of the dinghy to which it had been secured. The dinghy then went over on its side, throwing the man into the water.

He was quickly rescued, and the dinghy was taken on board the life-boat, which reached her station at 4.30..