LIFE-BOAT RETURNS WITH YACHT IN TOW Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1962, the Needles coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Matoya If had broken down west of the Needles. Ten minutes later the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings with the bowman in charge. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze, the sea was moderate, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the Matoya II, with a crew of six, two miles west of the Needles off Dolphin Bank. She took her in tow and returned to her station, arriving at 4.35..