CHANCE MEETING SAVES DINGHY SAILOR Hastings, Sussex. On Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, while returning from a visit to Bexhill Regatta, the life-boat M.T.C.

intercepted a motor boat towing the sailing dinghy Sheena with a man clinging to it half a mile south of Bridgeway.

There was a gentle east-north-easterly wind and slight sea. The man was taken aboard the life-boat and the dinghy towed to Hastings. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30 p.m..