GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'clock the next morning a strong north-west-by-westerly gale had sprung up and the sea became very choppy. The larger yachts were then nearing Bridlington, and from four o'clock onwards they began crossing the finishing line. By eight o'clock five yachts had still not finished, all of them of the smaller class, and after consulting the harbour master the honorary secretary decided to launch the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II. It was then 9.15 and the yachts still to finish were Naive, Salamander and Abigail. The life-boat set a course to the southward to search for them, and the Abigail was seen by the harbour master well up the bay. Her main halyard had jammed, and the life-boat escorted her safely in. After some minor repairs had been quickly effected the life-boat left harbour once more.

She met the coaster Adam's Beck, which had picked up the crew of four of the Naive close by the Humber lightvessel.

She took them on board and landed them in the harbour. In the meantime the coaster Dybergh had rescued the crew of the Salamander twelve miles off Flamborough Head and had landed them. The life-boat finally reached her station at 4.10. Both the Naive and the Salamander were later salvaged by two passing vessels..