COXSWAIN WATCHES TILL YACHT IS EM TROUBLE Appledore, Devon. During the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coxswain saw a small motor yacht with one man on board leave Appledore in a strong westerly breeze and an ebbing tide. He kept the yacht under observation and about 11.30 saw that she was in difficulties near the harbour bar. At 11.40 the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker was launched. She came up with the yacht Pat, which had broken down. The yacht had dropped anchor but had dragged into the South Gut into a dangerous position in a steep sea and broken water. The life-boat passed a tow rope across, pulled the yacht clear and towed her to Appledore, arriving at 1.20..