Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.

on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the IRB launched in a gentle to moderate northnorth- easterly breeze and choppy sea.

She found the yacht, which had three people aboard. Two of them were transferred to the IRB, which then took the yacht in tow. The IRB returned to her station at 12.23 P-m-.