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A Sailing Dinghy (6)

DAMAGE BY WIND Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At 2.30 p.m.

on the same day, a capsized sailing dinghy was sighted three miles south-west of Egypt Point, Isle of Wight. Three people were clinging to the hull in moderate seas after a strong south-westerly wind had dismasted their craft. They were taken aboard the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001, which towed the dinghy into the river Medina and moored her..