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An Air bed

Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze and slightly choppy sea. She took the boy on board and landed him on the beach, returning to her station at 3.10 p.m..