ESCORTED At 6.12 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Freeleen had broken down one and a half miles south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.

was launched at 6.25 p.m. in moderate northerly wind and choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the cabin cruiser at 6.58 p.m. and shortly afterwards a squall sprang up from the north and the wind increased to gale force.

The life-boat escorted the Freeleen to Poole Bar Buoy and reached her station at 8.50 p.m..