YACHT TOWED IN AFTER CREW SCRAMBLE ASHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.3 on the morning of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 34-foot auxiliary yacht White Heather, which had anchored off Clacton beach, was drifting after losing her anchor, and that her crew of six had managed to scramble ashore. At 10.49 the coastguard reported that one of the crew had refloated the yacht but that a kedge anchor, which he had put out, was not holding. There was an increasing on-shore wind and a rising sea. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring, was launched at 10.55 in a moderate southsouth- westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was an hour after low water.

The life-boat towed the yacht to Brightlingsea, and as she could not be rehoused because of the heavy seas, she remained at Brightlingsea until the 26th June..