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An Aeroplane’s Rubber Dinghy

JANUARY 22ND. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11.10 A.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be sent to a position three miles N. by W. of Margate, where an aeroplane’s yellow rubber dinghy had been seen. A S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at 11.20 A.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched. She found that the dinghy had already been picked up by an R.A.F. rescue launch, and returned to the station at 1 P.M. - Rewards, £7 12s..