Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.40 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on the West Barrow Sands between a mile and two miles north-west of the Mid Barrow lightvessel. At 7.55 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a rough sea. There was a moderate easterly wind and the tide was ebbing. Because of the low water the coxswain decided to go through the Goldmer Gat and up the Barrow Deep, where he found the yacht Rivale. She had a crew of two and was on passage from Ramsgate to Burnham- on-Crouch. Her anchor was weighed, and when the life-boat pulled her clear of the sands it was found that her rudder had been lost. She was taken in tow to Brightlingsea, where she was berthed.

The life-boat reached her station at 7.10. Property salvage case..