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Violet

ENGINE TROUBLE At 4.46 p.m. on 14th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat had been having repeated engine trouble over one mile north of Sandown Castle, in a moderate sea and strong south-easterly breeze. At 5 p.m. the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched into a high tide. She found the motor boat Violet broached to in Sandwich bay. Her six anglers and one boatman were taken aboard the life-boat and the boat was towed to safety. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..