TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze blowing from the south-east and the weather was overcast.

The life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched at 12.16 on an ebbing tide. The sea was moderate. The life-boat made for the position given and came up with the yacht Cariad at 1.40. The Cariad, which had a crew of two, was on passage from Ilfracombe to Cardiff, but her engine had failed and she was being blown off shore by the south-easterly breeze and being carried down the channel on the ebb tide. The life-boat towed her to Ilfracombe, which was reached at 4.10. The life-boat was rehoused on the flood tide at eight o'clock..