YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings in a gentle west-southwesterly breeze, a smooth sea and an ebbing tide. She made for the position given and took the yacht Fairwinds of Leigh, which had a crew of four, in tow.

The yacht's engine had broken down.

The life-boat finally reached her station at 9.15..