LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Yann Paol

St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.45 p.m. on I3th July, 1967, the duty harbour official was informed that a yacht was adrift off St. Brelades Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon was launched at 11.18 in a light breeze and a calm sea. It was half an hour before high water. The Fire Service IRB was also sent to the scene. On reaching the casualty, the yacht Yann Paol carrying a crew of three, the rescue boat put a member of her crew on board. The life-boat came up at 12.5 a.m. on I4th July and took the yacht in tow to St. Helier. She returned to her station at 12.55..