Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on 9th October, 1965, the coastguard notified the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a half miles east of the station. At 12 o'clock the IRB launched at high water in a strong east-south-easterly breeze and a rough sea. She found the dinghy with two people on board. They were embarked and with the dinghy in tow the IRB returned to her station, which was reached at 12.30 p.m..