TWO YACHTS ESCORTED OVER BAR Salcombe, Devon. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was drifting in Salcombe estuary with her sails torn.

Ten minutes later the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings in a strong south-westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was half flood.

The life-boat found the yacht Thalia cruising around on her engines, and the coxswain decided to stand by until the yacht tried to cross the bar towards high water. In the meantime another yacht, the Erla, was seen anchored in Starehole Bottom very near the rocks. The lifeboat went to investigate, and the coxswain advised the yacht's crew to weigh anchor. The life-boat then escorted first the Erla and then theTha/ia across the bar and finally reached her moorings at 5.10..