BROKEN CROSS-TREES Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.56 a.m. on igth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht in distress near Cork sands. There was a slight sea with a gentle west-southwesterly breeze. It was almost low water.

At 2.40 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded to investigate, and found the yacht Galaxy lying at anchor at 4.5. The crew of three explained that the yacht's port cross-trees had broken, that her stays had been carried away by the wind, and that the auxiliary engine could not be started. The life-boat took her hi tow to the backwaters of the river Walton. She returned to her station at 7.25..