CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 9.41 in a south-south-westerly wind of near gale force and a heavy swell. It was two hours after high water.

On reaching the position the life-boat found that the yacht had been washed over the breakwater into the Sound.

The Queen's Harbour Master's launch picked up one man who was clinging to the yacht's rudder while the life-boat picked up a lifebuoy about a hundred yards away. Two of the life-boat's crew then boarded the yacht, a converted ship's boat named Luisa, to see if anyone could be found. While on board one of the crew cut his hand severely, and the life-boat took him ashore immediately, where an ambulance was waiting. He was taken to hospital, where five stitches were inserted in his hand.

The life-boat had meanwhile put out again to search for the missing man.

Two of the crew were landed on the breakwater to search the extreme end but no one was found. During the service searchlights from H.M.S. Tartar at Breakwater Fort helped, with the lifeboat's own searchlight, to light up the area. Eventually the search was abandoned, and the life-boat towed the Luisa into Millbay Docks, where she was berthed. The life-boat finally reached her station at 3.5..