DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a moderate sea and the tide was two hours after high water. Three minutes later the coastguard at Culver reported that the yacht was under power, so the order to launch was temporarily suspended. Seven minutes later the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht was now drifting broadside on to the waves. The lifeboat Jesse Lumb was launched at 1.54 and half an hour later reported that she was towing the yacht Scimitar with a crew of two to Under Tyne. She returned to her station at 4 p.m..