Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had capsized a mile off Polkerris and that four people were in the water. There was a moderate northerly breeze and a slight sea with a flood tide. At 4.35 the life-boat Deneys Reitz was launched. Shortly afterwards information was received that the four people had been picked up by local boats and landed at Polkerris, but the capsized boat was still adrift. The life- boat took the dinghy Karina in tow to Fowey and then returned to her station, arriving at 6.10..