DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two miles west-south-west of the Solent Banks buoy with both engines broken down. The tide was flooding and the south-easterly wind was gusting to strong gale force. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe put out at 2.43 a.m. in a rough sea and found the yacht Ocean Wave of Lymington, with a crew of three. The yacht was leaking badly and her engines had caught fire some time earlier, but the blaze had been put out.

The yacht was taken in tow and brought into Yarmouth with some difficulty as her anchor was still down and had fouled some cables. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.40 a.m..