FOUR PEOPLE SAVED BY SPEEDBOAT Swanage, Dorset. At 5.53 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Swanage coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with four people on board appeared to be in difficulties half a mile east-north-east of Peveril Point. There was a strong westsouth- westerly wind with a rough sea.

The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 6.7 on an ebb tide. A speed boat owned by a holiday-maker also put off and reached the dinghy before the life-boat. The four people on board the dinghy were rescued by the speed boat and the life-boat towed the dinghy back to harbour. She then returned to her station, arriving at half past six..