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Laura

TAKEN TO WEYMOUTH Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.3 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen two miles southwest of the look-out. There was a smooth sea with a moderate westerly breeze and the tide was ebbing. At 3.20 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out and found the yacht Laura, with one man on board, six miles south-west of Portland Bill lighthouse. The life-boat towed the Laura to Weymouth and reached her station at 7.20..