Appledore, North Devon. At 11.30 a.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the auxiliary yacht Sea Jack, which had a crew of three, had lost all her canvas and had engine trouble. She was being towed by another yacht to Bideford. The sea was smooth with a moderate south-westerly breeze and it was i| hours after low water. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker put out at 1.15 p.m. to meet the two boats and escort them over the harbour bar. She escorted them over the bar and up river to Bideford, returning to her station at 5.45..