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The Sailing Boat Tablet and Red Barrel

OWNER MADE DONATION Sheringham, Norfolk. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station from a publicity launch to Blakeney on Sunday the i5th August, 1965, when at 12.10 the small sailing boat Tablet was seen adrift and waterlogged. There was a light southwesterly breeze and a slight sea. There was no one on board and the boat was taken in tow. A little later an outboard motor boat was seen in difficulties with two men and two women on board near Blakeney Point. Her engine had broken down. The two women were taken aboard the life-boat, while the two men beached their boat, Red Barrel. The lifeboat reached her station at six o'clock when it was learnt from the owner of the Tablet that his boat with four young men on board had been abandoned when it became waterlogged at 9.40 on the I4th August. Her owner made a donation to RNLI funds..