THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue. There was a gale force wind from the north-north-west with a very rough sea. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.10 on an ebb tide.

She came up with the yacht, which was drifting helplessly off Dimlington, and as she went alongside two of the yacht's crew jumped on board. Before the third member could jump the yacht was swept away by heavy seas. The lifeboat came alongside again and the third man was taken on board. The casualty was taken in tow to Grimsby. The three survivors and life-boat crew had a meal at the Seamen's Mission and the crew remained at Grimsby overnight as the weather was too severe to rehouse the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station on the 19th August at 5.30.

Bridlington life-boat also launched to help search for the yacht, but returned to her station when the yacht was found by the Humber life-boat..