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A Speed Boat

TWO SAVED AFTER SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZES Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized half a mile south of the harbour entrance. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 6.20 in a fresh west-south-westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was an hour and a half after high water. A motor launch, Knight Errant, also went to the position and being first to arrive rescued the speedboat's crew of two. The life-boat took the speedboat in tow into Shoreham harbour and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.45. A gift was made to the life-boat crew..