Runswick, Yorkshire - At 4.25 p.m.

on 2Qth July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht had capsized one mile off Port Mulgrave. The life-boat The Elliot Gill, which had just returned from a harbour fete at Staithes and was being rehoused, proceeded in a fresh south westerly breezeand a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.

The yacht was found one mile from Port Mulgrave. Her crew of two were embarked and the life-boat took the yacht in tow to Runswick Bay. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..