REFLOATED YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 1.25 p.m. on iyth May, 1964, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht was in a dangerous position on the Pole sands and at 1.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, taking her boarding boat in tow.

A fresh breeze was blowing from the east, there was a moderate sea and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the 28-foot yacht Pippa with a crew of two, but as she was in no immediate danger the life-boat returned to her station at 2.15. At 3.30 three members of the life-boat crew left in the boarding boat and took kedge anchors and ropes to the Pippa, which by this time was high and dry. The yachtsmen were still on board. The anchors and ropes were laid out, and the crew members returned to Exmouth. At 8.30 the life-boat put out again. Using the boarding boat, the crew were able to pick up the lines and pass them to the life-boat, which refloated the Pippa, towed her to moorings at Starcross, and then returned to her station at 9.45. The owners made a gift to the life-boat crew..