BOWMAN PUT ON BOARD IN HEAVY SEAS Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cabin cruiser was firing red flares close to Portland Bill.

There was a moderate south-south-west wind with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. At 1.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke made for the position given and found the motor cruiser near the s.s. Sambur. The life-boat went alongside the motor cruiser, and with some difficulty in the heavy seas the bowman was put on board. Two people were found on board the cabin cruiser.

They seemed to be in a state of shock and hardly able to move. The life-boat took the cabin cruiser in tow, and with the bowman, who had been left on board, steering her brought her slowly to moorings in Weymouth harbour.

The life-boat then returned to her station, which she reached at 5.5..