EXHAUSTED MEN TAKEN OFF BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had reported a small rowing boat drifting out to sea off Green Hill Gardens about two miles off shore. The boat's outboard engine was thought to have broken down and the two men aboard her were trying to row ashore. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 5.5 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The boat was found a quarter of a mile off Donnington Mills. The two men, who were very exhausted, were taken on board the life-boat, which then took the boat in tow to Weymouth harbour. The life-boat reached her station at 6.15.

During this service the bowman of the life-boat injured a thumb, but the injury was not serious..