YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she was making water five miles south-west of Portland and asking for the life-boat to stand by in case she needed help. As no further contact could be made with the yacht it was decided at 3.36 to launch the lifeboat.

Four minutes later the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put to sea and began a search in a light west-south-west wind, a choppy sea and a flooding tide.

The Themlyay later wirelessed that she was at anchor to the west side of Portland Bill, that one of her engines had broken down, and that she wanted to be towed to Weymouth. A helicopter confirmed her position, and the life-boat found the yacht, which had a crew of two, two miles north-west of Portland Bill. She took her in tow and made for Weymouth, arriving at six o'clock..