Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's crew waving for help. At 6.19 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a gentle north-easterly breeze. There was a slight sea and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the yacht Goosander with a crew of four about four miles west of Anvil Point. She had a broken boom track, and the life- boat took her in tow. Another yacht Barbar, with a crew of three, was found weatherbound one mile south of Peveril Ledge with her engine broken down.

She was also taken in tow, and the life-boat reached her station at nine o'clock. The owners of both yachts made donations to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16s..