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Periwinkle

Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was being heavily pounded by a rough sea while at anchor off Hardfast Point. Because of the state of the weather the honorary secretary decided that the life-boat R.L.P. should be launched. She put out at noon, two hours after high water, in a stormy south-westerly wind of near gale force. She found the yacht Peri- winkle, a converted ship's boat, with two men on board, anchored in a dangerous position on the Milkmaid shoal. After weighing the yacht's anchor the life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage in Studland Bay and reached her station at 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..