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ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of Rame Head, and at 8.43 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put to sea. There was a light west-north-west breeze and a heavy swell. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht Dainty, with a crew of five, including a woman and a child, south of Penlee Point. The Dainty's mainsail was in ribbons, but she was making slow headway under a foresail. The life-boat escorted her until she anchored in Cawsand Bay and then returned to her station, arriving at ten o'clock..