YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out at 7.25 on a flooding tide. She came up with the Medea at 9.3 and towed her to Weymouth harbour, reaching her station at 12.40. The owner of the Medea made a gift to the life-boat crew..