YACHT AND FOUR TOWED TO SAFETY Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.17 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile off Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at half past seven on the flood tide. There was a smooth sea and light airs from the north-east. The life-boat eventually found the casualty, the yacht Calypso V of London with a crew of four, one of whom was sick, in the tow of H.M.S. Wizard. A helicopter had hovered over the yacht before it was taken in tow. The tow was passed from the warship to the life-boat, which brought the yacht into Weymouth harbour.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at half past nine..