YACHT FOUND ABANDONED AND ASHORE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 11.20 on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Hilbre Island, and at 12.6 the reserve life-boat Frank and William Gates, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate easterly wind and a slight sea. The tide was half ebb. At 4.30 the life-boat found the yacht Petree abandoned and ashore at West Hoyle bank: her centreboard was down and her sails set. A landing party searched the bank for her crew but could find nobody. The yacht was then righted, baled out and towed to Hilbre pool, where she was left at anchor, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 6.12. The owner made a donation to the branch funds..