HELICOPTER CAME At 2.12 p.m. on the following day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy which had capsized in Whitecliff Bay had been righted but appeared to be in difficulties. There was a light westerly breeze with a moderate sea, and it was high water. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.25 but the single crew member of the dinghy was rescued by helicopter before the life-boat arrived.

The life-boat returned to her station with the dinghy in tow at 3.25..