YACHT'S CREW SEE FLARES FROM FISHING BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported west of White Nothe, Ringstead Bay.

There was a fresh south-easterly wind with a choppy sea. At 1.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched at high tide. Contact was made with a sailing boat, whose crew had seen the flares and who indicated their position.

A helicopter was also over the area of search. The life-boat found the motor fishing boat Four Girls of Weymouth with her engine broken down. Two people were on board. The life-boat towed the fishing boat to Lulworth and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.15..