SEA ANCHOR PUT ABOARD KEELBOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the keelboat Courage intended to put into Scarborough harbour because of the severe weather conditions. It was decided in view of the very rough sea at Scarborough to meet the keelboat and to put a sea anchor on board to give her greater stability when entering harbour.

There was a gale blowing from the northeast.

At two o'clock the life-boat J. G.

Graves of Sheffield launched on a flooding tide. She came up with the Courage two miles north-east of Scarborough and after putting the sea anchor on board escorted her into harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.10, but because of the state of the tide she could not be rehoused until six o'clock..