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A Fishing Boat

TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light north-westerly breeze. At 2.50, when the life-boat Baltic Exchange put out, the tide was at low water. At 3.30 the life-boat found the two men and rescued them. She radioed for an ambulance to be ready when they returned. At 5.10 she entered the harbour and the two men were quickly taken to hospital by the waiting ambulance. At 5.45 the life-boat returned to her station..