DISMASTED CRAFT Minehead, Somerset. At 12.50 p.m.

on i2th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran had been dismasted four miles off the Foreland.

At i.20 the life-boat Sarah Ann Austin, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate to fresh southsouth- easterly wind and corresponding sea. It was two hours before high water, and visibility was poor. Before the lifeboat arrived a helicopter rescued the crew of two from the catamaran Orlando of Portishead. The life-boat recovered the Orlando which was then four miles northeast of the Foreland and took her in tow to Minehead, reaching her station at 6.25..