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Till Then

Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 7th May, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht, with a crew cf two, off Marske appeared to have broken her top mast. There was a westerly gale with a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 2.55 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched and found the yacht Till Then with her mast broken and sails carried away. The life- boat towed the Till Then to Staithes harbour and returned to her station at 6.30 that evening..