FRENCH YACHT'S DIFFICULTY At 4.40 p.m. on the same day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dismasted about i\ miles west of the Needles. There was a rough sea with a near gale from the southwest; the weather was fair and the tide was ebbing. At 4.55 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe put out and on reaching the vessel, the French racing yacht Eloe, found that the yacht's crew had rigged a jury sail and started their auxiliary engine.

The life-boat escorted the yacht to Yarmouth, returning to her station at 5.25..