Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.28 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1959, the police were informed that the sailing dinghy Mild and Bitter had capsized in the bay and that two people were in the water. The honorary secretary and coxswain were informed, and at 6.45 the life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched in a slight sea. There was a moderate south-easterly wind, and it was high water. As the life-boat approached the casualty a second dinghy was seen making for the capsized boat. The dinghy had put out from the shore, but her outboard motor had broken down and her crew were using oars.

The dinghy picked up one man and the life-boat rescued the second man.

The dinghy's crew and the man they had picked up were transferred to the life-boat, and both dinghies were taken in tow to harbour, which was reached at 7.20. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 19s..