Exmouth, Devon. At 9.57 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Dawlish that a motor boat was making distress signals two miles off Dawlish.

At 10.9 the life-boat Frank and William Oates, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate sea. There was a moderate south-westerly wind and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the 18-feet motor boat Donald of Teignmouth with her engine broken down. She had four people on board.

The life-boat took her in tow to Ex- mouth and reached her station at 12.15.

Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £10 8s..