St. Helier, Jersey. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the assistant honorary secretary of a report received from St. Brelade's Bay that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties west of Leo Fours buoy. A watch was kept on the yacht, and as she was near rocks the life-boat Elizabeth Rippon left her moorings at 12.18. The sea was rough and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the French yacht Guisane on passage from Cherbourg to Morlaix.

The yacht had a crew of two and was making little headway, having shipped some six inches of water. The life-boat took the yacht in tow and reached her station at 1.20. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..