DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

About 11.30 in the morning messages were received from the coastguard and the R.A.F. that a yacht off Newlyn was dragging her anchors in a dangerous position and in need of immediate help. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 12.5. A south-south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. The life-boat found the auxiliary yacht Diane, bound from Cowes to the Mediterranean, with a crew of seven. They declined to leave her. She had one anchor down. The other had been lost. The lifeboat passed her a rope, and towed her to Newlyn, where they arrived at 1.50 that afternoon.

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