White Lady
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—A routine exercise had been arranged for two o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1955, but just before the life-boat put to sea the coastguard reported that the yacht White Lady, of Southwold, which had a crew of four, had capsized off Southwold. The coastguard stated that one of her crew was missing, so the life-boat, Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, on temporary duty at the station, accompanied by the district inspector of life-boats, put to sea. The sea was choppy, there was a fresh westerly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat made a search in which the Aldeburgh No. 1 life-boat, a helicopter, another air- craft, an R.A.F. rescue launch and four other boats took part, but the missing person was not found and the Lowestoft life-boat reached her station again at 5.30. A fishing boat rescued the three survivors.—Rewards to the crew, £12 12s..