Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be clinging to her. At 5.5 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings in a slight sea.

There was a gentle east-north-easterly breeze, and it was an hour and a half before high water. The life-boat made for the position given, which was three and a half miles away, and found the upturned boat but no survivors. She carried out a search for some two hours, but found nothing, and after taking the boat in tow returned to her station, arriving at 7.50. It was later learnt that the boat which had been found had drifted away from the yacht Moroven and that there had been nobody on board her. The first report that people had been clinging to the boat had evidently been incorrect. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..