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A Dinghy (5)

Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.45 p.m.

on 23rd July, 1964, the honorary secretary's son learned that someone was clinging to a dinghy and calling for heJp.

At 6.47 the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight south-westerly breeze and slight sea. The tide was flooding. The inshore rescue boat made for the capsized dinghy at the harbour entrance and took the crew of two on board. The dinghy was salvaged and the inshore rescue boat jeturned to her station at 7 p.m..