A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small sailing dinghy with two men on board had capsized a quarter of a mile off shore between Sandy Cove and Towyn. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 3.45 There was a fresh south-west by westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. As the life-boat was closing in on the casualty a helicopter, which had also been called out, picked up the two occupants. The life-boat righted the dinghy, towed her to Rhyl, and returned to her station at 5.48 p.m..