LIFE-BOAT TAKES OVER TOW OF YACHT Holy Island, Northumberland. At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Ettrick that she had the disabled yacht Cuprous of Southampton, with two men on board, in tow five miles north-east of Emmanuel Head. She was trying to tow the yacht to Holy Island but to do so she might need help. The life-boat Gertrude was launched at 6.20 in a moderate westerly wind and a moderate sea an hour and a half after low water. She met the motor vessel in the channel off the Plough Seal buoy and took over the tow. The Cuprous was moored safely in Holy Island harbour, and the life-boat reached her station at seven o'clock..