Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was launched in a strong north north easterly wind with a rough sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the trimaran Suedor one mile south of Durlston Head. There werefour people on board. Her engine had broken down and she was unmanageable in the rough sea. A line was made fast and the yacht was taken in tow. At the Old Harry rocks the line parted, having fouled the keel of one of the outriggers. The line cut across the forestays which parted under the strain and brought the mast down. The damaged mast was taken aboard the life-boat and the tow was resumed to Poole harbour. As the yacht was left on her moorings the life-boat grounded on the soft mud. She refloated without damage at 9.37, and returned to her station at 10.35..