SAILS WERE TORN Exmouth, South Devon. At 1.30 p.m.

on 4th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor in rough seas and near gale force north-easterly winds close to Seaton. A fishing boat from Beer had been unable to tow her. At 3.50 the lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, put out on a flooding tide. At 6.25 she reached the ketch Cap Lizard which had a crew of two. As the engine of the ketch had failed and her sails were torn, the Cap Lizard was towed to Brixham. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.15 a.m..