EIGHT NAVAL CADETS TOWED TO SAFETY Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Gammon Head and that her crew were signalling. At 11.30 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange was launched. There was a light westerly wind and a calm sea. It was high water.

The life-boat made a search and found a 32-foot cutter a quarter of a mile off Gammon Head. She was under oars and manned by eight cadets from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. They were unable to make headway against the tide. At their request the life-boat towed the cutter to Salcombe harbour and arrived back at her station at 12.45 a.m. on the 14th. The Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, made a gift to the funds of the Institution..