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Colley

FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor yacht Colley on board and would like them taken off.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched at 7.55 in a light west-southwesterly wind and calm sea. It was high water. The life-boat met the Zundrecht three miles south of Portland Bill and took off the four people on board. She returned to her station at 10.45..