SHARK FISHERS TOWED HOME Torbay, Devon. At 6.55 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Brixham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel was flashing the international distress signal about three and a half miles south of Berry Head. There was a moderate south-westerly wind with a slight sea. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent was launched at 7.15 on a flood tide. She came up with the casualty, Torquay Star, which had developed engine trouble when returning from a shark fishing expedition. The fishing vessel had eleven people on board. A tow-rope was made fast and the fishing vessel was towed into Torquay harbour, which was reached at 8.40. After the casualty was safe alongside the jetty, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving there at 9.20.

The owner of the fishing vessel later made a gift to the life-boat crew, part of which they generously donated to the Institution..