Swanage, Dorset. At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht whose sails had apparently been carried away seemed to be in difficulties a mile and a half off Peveril Point. The life-boat R.L.P.

was launched at 4.13 on the ebb tide in a fresh to strong south-south- westerly gale and a moderate sea.

The life-boat found the yacht Pleiades about one mile south-east of Peveril Point, where the sea was very rough.

The coxswain succeeded in getting the yacht in tow at the fourth attempt and brought her into the life-boat moorings at Swanage. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.55. The owner made a gift to the crew..