TOW FOR SCHOONER WITH SEA CADETS ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares half a mile off Abbotsbury. Seven minutes later the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings in a southwesterly gale and a moderate sea. It was two hours before low water. The lifeboat found the schooner The Garland of Cowes, with her master and nine sea cadets on board, six miles north-west of Portland Bill. The life-boat escorted her round Portland Bill. Then as the drogue rope had fouled the schooner's propeller and her engines were now out of action, the life-boat took her in tow to Weymouth harbour, which was reached at ten o'clock. The master of the schooner and parents of the cadets jointly made a contribution to the Institution's funds..