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Gladeye

Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out at 5.40 on a flooding tide and found the yacht Gladeye in tow of the motor vessel Black Ranger. The life-boat escorted both vessels to Portland harbour and reached her station at 7.50 p.m..