RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was one hour before high water. At 11.27 the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched, and 16 minutes later found the yacht Xema anchored close to the shore and in danger of being blown ashore. Her rudder was broken and her engine had failed.

She was towed in to the harbour by the life-boat, which returned to her station at 12.45 a.m..