Lifeboat goes out for five in dinghy WHILE Campbeltown lifeboat raced 12 miles to their rescue, a Glasgow couple rowed for their lives against a running sea and strong winds off Southend on Thursday. It happened when Mr and Mrs Teddy Taylor, holidaying in a caravan on Polliwilline beach, borrowed a 12-foot fibreglass dinghy from Mr Reg Batten of Chiskan Farm.
With them on their fishing trip went their young sons Andrew and Gordon and Mr Batten’s 13-year-old son Stuart. Mrs Taylor did the rowing.
When a strong offshore wind rose, Mrs Taylor found that she could not row back against the heavy sea. Her husband joined her at the oars and together they fought to make the three-quarters of a mile back to land.