YACHT FOUND AND TOWED TO HARBOUR St. Ives, Cornwall. About 9.30 on the evening of the 20th July, 1962, some local fishermen told the honorary secretary that the crew of the yacht Faith II, which had returned to harbour because of bad weather, had reported that the small yacht Liana, which had been accompanying her, had disappeared.

The Liana had last been seen at 6.45 north-west of St. Ives Head making towards St. Ives Bay. The coastguard asked the stations at St.

Agnes and Gurnard's Head whether the Liana had been sighted but learnt nothing.

A moderate west-south-westerly wind was blowing with a rough sea.

At 10.15 the life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child was launched on an ebbing tide. She made towards Godrevy Island to search the most dangerous area under the existing weather conditions. At 10.30 she saw a small flashing light near Godrevy Point and found it to be a signal from the Liana. The Liana had split her mainsail during the day, and although another had been bent poor progress had been made in weather which had become worse. The life-boat took the Liana, which had a crew of three, in tow to St.

Ives and then returned to her station, arriving at eleven o'clock..