SPEED BOAT TOWED At 5.3 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a speedboat had been seen about to strike the rocks off Hoe bathing pool. At 5.18 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left in a near south-south-easterly gale and choppy sea. A pilot launch which had also gone to help had already taken the speedboat Enterprise in tow. The tow was transferred to the life-boat and the speedboat, whose engine had broken down, was taken to moorings at Laira.

The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..