Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the youths aboard were calling for help.

At 10.5 the life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched. She reached a position one mile west of Brean Down, where she found a sea cadet sailing boat and dinghy with five exhausted youths on board the sailing boat. The five boys were taken on board the life-boat, which then returned to harbour, with the sailing boat and dinghy in tow, arriving at eleven o'clock..