YACHT SEEN TO DISAPPEAR IN ROUGH SEA Exmouth, Devon. At 9.25 on the evening of the 16th August, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a sailing yacht had been seen to disappear between a half and three-quarters of a mile off Ladram Bay near Sidmouth. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a rough sea. At ten o'clock the lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, put out on the ebbing tide. After a thorough search she found the yacht Caravel II, which had had to lower her sails and had been forced to tack constantly. The yacht was on passage from Weymouth to Torbay, and she had two people, her owner and his wife, on board.

The woman was taken on board the life-boat, which towed the yacht to Exmouth and finally reached her station at 2.20 in the morning. The owner made a gift to the life-boat crew..