Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.48 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile and a half south-south-east of Portland Bill. At 5.10 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out in a heavyswell, with a fresh westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She found the Dutch barge Scaldis V of Cowes, with seven people and a dog on board, broken down and with her rudder damaged. She took the Dutch barge in tow to Weymouth and reached her moorings at 8.40. Property salvage case..