Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.8 on the afternoon of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a whaler from H.M.N.Z.S.

Taranaki, with three men aboard, hadcapsized in the middle of Portland harbour and was drifting towards the northern breakwater. At 3.15, when the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out, there was a strong south-south-westerly wind with a rough sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat reached the whaler at 3.30 and found that the men had already been picked up. The life-boat crew righted the whaler, baled her out and towed her to Portland, reaching their station again at 6.35..