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The Inner Dowsing Lightvessel

FOUR WERE STRANDED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 8.10 a.m.

on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men and two boys were stranded on the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. They had secured to the vessel in fog but their two boats had broken adrift while they were aboard the lightvessel. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched into a choppy sea and moderate northerly breeze. The tide was i i hours before low water. The four people were taken aboard the life-boat and landed. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.25 p.m..