Swanage, Dorset. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had seen a yacht flying a red flag five miles south-south-west of Anvil Point. A fishing vessel, which was a mile and a half away, was making for the casualty.

At 11.12 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a rough sea. There was a gentle east-north-easterly breeze and it was two hours after high water. When the life-boat was two miles south of Durlston Head the helicopter pilotinformed her by very high frequency radio-telephone that she would fly over the yacht and fire a Very light. The life-boat found the yacht Shearwater of Pool disabled, with a broken rudder pintle, in tow of the fishing vessel Tor- bay Belle. The yacht's crew of three, who had been taken aboard the fishing vessel, were transferred to the life-boat, which landed them at Swanage. The fishing boat towed the Shearwater to Poole, and the life-boat reached her station at 1.15. The crew of the yacht made a gift to the life-boat crew and a donation to the Institution's funds.

Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16s..