Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares four miles off Mil- ford-on-sea. The life-boat John R.

Webb, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 4.13 in a rough seawith a strong south-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. A helicopter also took off. The life-boat found the yacht Katie broken down one mile off Hurst Castle with her sails badly torn.

She had four people and a dog aboard.

The yacht was taken in tow to Yarmouth harbour, and the life-boat reached her station at six o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £6..