YACHT'S SAILS BLOWN AWAY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the s.s.

Bravo had taken the yacht Evenlode in tow and was sailing to the Sunk lightvessel.

The life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at 12.25 and took the Evenlode in tow near the Sunk lightvessel.

There was a rough sea and a strong breeze from the south-west. The yacht, with a crew of three, had lost her jib and suffered some damage to her mainsail. While getting the mainsail off a sheet had fouled her screw. She was towed into Harwich harbour and the life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.45 p.m..