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David

TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER WITH ANGLERS ABOARD Plymouth, Devon. At 8.45 on the evening of the 13th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht needed help near Draystone buoy. There was a moderate breeze blowing from the northeast with a slight sea. The weather was cloudy. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 9.2 on an ebbing tide and came up with the casualty, which was the cabin cruiser David, at 9.25. Three men and two boys had been out fishing in the David when her engines had failed. A member of the life-boat crew was placed on board the cabin cruiser, and the life-boat towed her into Plymouth. The two boys were transferred to the life-boat when she entered Plymouth Sound. The life-boat stood by until the David was safely moored in Millbay docks and then returned to her station, arriving at 10.40..