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CANOES CAPSIZED Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.

on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that two canoes had capsized off the East Beach. There was a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was low water. The life-boat Margaret left her moorings at 4.56 and rescued a girl and a boy who were in the canoes. The life-boat then returned to her station at 5.15 p.m. and the girl was taken to hospital suffering from exposure..