Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.

on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the life-boat Margaret proceeded to investigate in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea.

The tide was ebbing. In conjunction with a helicopter from Leuchars the life-boat searched the area. Only a lifebuoy and the yawl's tiller were found and after three hours the life-boat was recalled and returned to Dunbar at 1.30. There had been one man on board the yawl which had been caught abeam by a heavy sea when returning to harbour..