MASTHEAD SIGNAL At 12.43 P-m- on 6tn September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was flying articles of clothing at her masthead. There was a choppy sea with a fresh northwesterly breeze. It was two hours before low water. At 12.49 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched but the inshore rescue boat, which had also put out, reached the casualty first and landed the six occupants of the small sailing dinghy.

The dinghy's rudder had broken and she was out of control. The life-boat, with the help of a longshore boat, managed to bring in the dinghy and returned to her station at 1.25..