MOTOR BOAT TOWED BACK TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At ten o'clock on the night of Sunday the 18th August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen a mile east of Grove Point. At 10.22 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched. There was a fresh west-north-west wind, a rough sea and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat made a search and located the local motor yacht Dolce Vita with a crew of four, three miles south-east of Grove Point. Her engines had broken down.

The life-boat towed her to the harbour and arrived back at her station at 12.5 the next morning. The owner made gifts to the life-boat crew and to the funds of the Institution..