TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT IN GALE Filey, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.

At 1.22 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary at Filey a message intercepted from the coaster Dryburgh, which was alongside the yacht Saboo of Scarborough. There were six people on board the yacht, and the coaster was trying to take her in tow as the yacht's propeller had been fouled. The help of the life-boat was asked for. The honorary secretary at Scarborough was also informed, and at 4.5 the Scarborough life-boat, Howard D., on temporary duty at the station, was launched. The Filey lifeboat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched ten minutes later. There was a west-north-westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was two hours before low water. The Filey life-boat reached the yacht six miles south-east-by-south of the coastguard look-out and took her in tow. The Scarborough life-boat arrived shortly afterwards, and she escorted the Filey life-boat and the yacht to Scarborough harbour, which was reached at 4.30. The Scarborough life-boat returned to her station at five o'clock. On her return passage the Filey life-boat went to the help of another yacht, the Lygra, which was in a dangerous position in Reighton roads. The life-boat's second coxswain boarded the yacht and helped the yacht's crew to bring her into safer water off North Filey Bay. The lifeboat finally reached her station at 7.15..