Swanage, Dorset. At 9.22 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man from the yacht Little Zakery of Hamble, which was ashore on a reef near Old Harry Rocks, had been landed by some fishermen.

Another man had been left aboard the yacht, which although two kedge anchors had been run out by the fishermen, was drifting further on to the reef and listing. At 9.47 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a slight swell.

There was a light north-westerly wind, and it was two hours after low water.

The coxswain anchored the life-boat within 40 yards of the yacht and a line was fired across her. The first attempts to tow the yacht off the reef failed, but after a time the life-boat succeeded in towing her into deeper water. She was not making water, and the man aboard her started the auxiliary engine, and she proceeded to Studland Bay. The life- boat reached her station at 11.45. Re- wards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..