Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress signals.

The yacht was kept under observation, and at 1.5 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched in a gentle westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat came up with the yacht Sthoreen, which had one man aboard, three miles south-east of Spurn Point and found she had a broken rudder pintle and that her engine had broken down. She towed the yacht to Grimsby and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.50. Paid per- manent crew..