Reserve life-boat O.N. 873 on trials.

At 12.45 P-m- °n i?th July, 1964, while the reserve life-boat George Elmy was undergoing trials on the river Thames she heard from the river boat Tamar Belle that a sailing dinghy in Greenwich Reach was in difficulties. The life-boat found that the dinghy had two boys aboard. One was trying to start an outboard motor while the other was using a paddle to try to stem the tide. Her sails were not in use. As they were making no progress they were towed to Greenwich pier, where the dinghy was made fast, and the life-boat continued on her trials..