Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had had her mast carried away one mile east of the look-out. At three o'clock there was a further report from the coastguard that the crew appeared to be using an outboard motor, but forty minutes later off Whitecliff they were seen using oars. As they were not making headway and were near rocks off Culver, the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 4.18. There was a fresh south-easterly wind with a choppy sea and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the sailing boat Sweetie Pie, with a crew of two, and took her in tow to Bem- bridge, reaching her station at 5.44.

Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..