Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th September, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the assistant honorary secietary that a small yacht was making distress signals off Warden Ledge buoy in the West Solent. At 8.15 the life-boat S.G.E.

left her moorings, with the second cox- swain in command, in a moderate south- south-westerly breeze and a light sea.

The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the yacht Kerry with her crew of three in some distress. She took her in tow and reached her station at 9.45..