THREE MEN RESCUED Filey, Yorkshire. At 1.47 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had broken down four and a half miles off Gristhorpe and had fired three distress flares. The life-boat The ha & Penryn Mils ted was launched at 2.5 and steamed to the position in a near gale force windfromthe west-north-west and a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the motor vessel Silver Star, which had first been sighted by a R.A.F. helicopter from Leconfield. The three men aboard her, who had been on a fishing trip, were taken on board the life-boat and the Silver Star, which had engine trouble, was taken in tow to Scarborough harbour.

The life-boat reached her station at six o'clock..