RED FLARES At 5.15 p.m. on ist December, 1964, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser off Broad Bench had fired red flares. There was a choppy sea with a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind. The life-boat R.L.P.

was launched at 5.35, i| hours before high water, and found the cabin cruiser two miles off Arish Mell Gap. Her crew of two were unable to start the engine and the life-boat towed her in to Weymouth where she was moored at 9.35..