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A Sailing Boat

THREE RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.20 a.m. on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat with a crew of three had capsized one mile west of the pier. It was i| hours after high tide, there was strong south-westerly breeze and the sea was rough. At 11.45 the life-boat Greater London II {Civil Service No. 30) was launched and 15 minutes later the three members of the dinghy's crew were picked up and returned immediately to the shore. The life-boat then towed the sailing boat to the station, arriving at 12.30 p.m..