RESCUED BY HELICOPTER At 7.4 pon. on I2th July, 1964, a local pleasure boat proprietor told the honorary secretary that a hirer of one of his boats was missing and that the help of the lifeboat was needed to find him. The tide had been flooding for 3^ hours. There was a choppy sea with a moderate northwesterly wind. At 7.15 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent put out to help and an aircraft and helicopter also assisted. The aircraft quickly found the boat about eight miles south-east of Berry Head and dropped a marker flare.

The helicopter picked up the occupant of the boat, which was out of control with engine failure, and the life-boat took the boat in tow to Brixham. She returned to her station at 9.10..