YACHT TOWED WITH EIGHT ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.10 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the pier master informed the coxswaiu that a yacht was in distress off Ringstead Bay.

A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing with a very rough sea. At 8.26 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out on the flooding tide. On reaching the position given she found the yacht Ituna of Dublin twenty yards off shore at White Nothe. Eight people were on board. The life-boat towed the Ituna to Weymouth harbour and then returned to her station, which she reached at 9.50..