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A Dinghy (5)

Largs, Ayrshire. At 10.5 p.m. on July, 1965, the police reported that a small dinghy with three persons on board was in difficulties a mile and a half south-west of the South Bay. At 10.17 the IRB launched in a strong easterly breeze and corresponding sea. The IRB came up with the dinghy and took her crew on board. They were landed at Cairnies quay and the IRB returned to the dinghy and towed her ashore. The IRB returned to her station at 11.25 P-m-.