Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.20 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pavlos of Beirut, which was on passage from Bremen to Greece, that she had two youths from the yacht Nanyao on board and wished to land them. A light north-westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. At 9.35 in the evening the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched on an ebbing tide.

She met the Pavlos off the entrance to Portland Harbour and took the two youths on board. She landed them at Weymouth and returned to her station at 10.55. The Nanyao was the yacht which earlier in the day had been towed to safety by the Dover life-boat. Before the Dover life-boat reached her the two youths had been taken off by the Pavlos at the request of her owner, who had remained on board the yacht..