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DINGHY IN DANGER At 3.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1965, as soon as the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin reached the pier from the previous service, a visitor reported to the motor mechanic that a dinghy was in difficulties in Loch Nevis. The life-boat went out at once and found the dinghy with a young man on board about 50 yards from a steep cliff face on the lee shore. The dinghy's engine had broken down. The life-boat made a run alongside and a line was thrown aboard which was grabbed by the young man. The dinghy was taken in tow to Mallaig and the life-boa^ reached her station at 4.50 p.m..