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The Open Motor Launch Y-Not

TOW FOR MOTOR LAUNCH DRIFTING ON TO LEE SHORE Falmouth, Cornwall. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht at anchor off Restronguet Point was dragging on to a lee shore. The life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare left her moorings at six o'clock in a southerly wind of storm force and a very rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came alongside the open motor launch Y-Not, which was then thirty feet from the shore, and found one man on board. A line was passed, and the life-boat towed the launch to a safe anchorage in Restronguet Creek. The life-boat reached her station at 7.7..