Hartlepool, Yorkshire - At 7.27 p.m.

on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a yacht had capsized off the north pier. It was low water with a moderate easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) set out at 7.37. In the meantime the Hartlepool pilot cutter, which had observed the casualty, rescued the two occupants of the yacht and brought them ashore. The lifeboat took the yacht in tow..