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Nanica

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. About five o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th April, 1963, the Wallasey police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was seen to be in trouble off the auxiliary coastguard look-out in the Rock Channel off Harrison Drive. At 5.7 the lifeboat Norman B. Corlett put out in a gentle north-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was half an hour after high water. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy Nanica more or less waterlogged with two people on board. She rescued the two men, took the Nanica in tow and returned to New Brighton, reaching her moorings at 5.56..