NO SURVIVORS FOUND FROM BURNT YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At seven minutes past one on the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been reported on fire and had eventually sunk four miles south of Southbourne. There was a gentle south-easterly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat S.G.E. left her mooring at 3.6 on the flooding tide. She joined the tanker Esso Hythe, several yachts and the inshore rescue boat from Mudeford, who were searching for survivors.

The life-boat made an extensive search but only found some small charred pieces of wreckage. She then returned to her station, arriving at 6.45..