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A Sailing Dinghy (4)

YACHT CAPSIZED Swanage, Dorset. At 5.45 p.m. on I7th September, 1965, a small yacht capsized in Swanage Bay opposite the Grand Hotel. At 5.59 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. A gale was blowing from the west-south-west, the sea was rough and the tide was ebbing. The lifeboat found a i q-footAlbacore sailing dinghy capsized with two men clinging to her one mile north of the life-boat station. Themen were rescued and the dinghy towed to the life-boat slipway, arriving at 7 p.m..