ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER SHE REFLOATS Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.40 on the evening of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a message received from the police that a local man had taken a woman and two children off a yacht which had gone aground on the Pye Sands, but that a man was still on board. He was in no immediate danger, but the southwesterly wind freshened later, and at 12.35 early on the 5th the life-boat Edian Courtauld put to sea. The sea was slight, and the tide was half flood. The life-boat stood by the yacht until she refloated at 1.50 and then escorted her to a safe anchorage in the Walton River. The life-boat finally reached her station at 2.45..