St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.34 on the afternoon of the 25th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a 25-feet yacht needed help about a mile east-north-east of Platte Fougere.

There was a light easterly wind with a slight sea. At 4.55 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea at high water. Three miles east-north-east of Platte Fougere lighthouse she found the auxiliary ketch Missel Thrush with a rope round her propeller. Her crew had been inable to hoist her sails.

One of the life-boat crew boarded her, a rope was passed across, and the life- boat towed her to St. Peter Port, arriv- ing at 6.35 that evening..