CLUNG TO DINGHY Tynemouth, Northumberland. On 5th July, 1964, the life-boat Tynesider was returning from a trip with members of the ladies' life-boat guild aboard when, just off the Northern pier, a capsized sailing dinghy was seen with a man and a girl clinging to her. It was 1.55 p.m. and one hour past high water, while the sea was choppy with a moderate north-easterly breeze. The life-boat went alongside and took the sailing dinghy's owner aboard while the girl was put aboard the Tynemouth Sailing Club's rescue craft, which was also alongside but had been in difficulties as her buoyancy bags had been coming adrift. The dinghy was righted by the life-boat and towed to Prior's Haven where the dinghy was baled out by the life-boat crew and the man was put ashore. The life-boat returned to the North Shields ferry landing where the guild members were disembarked and another party taken out at 5.15..