Torbay, Devon. At 10.22 a.m. on I3th July, 1964. the coastguard told the harbour master that a small sailing craft had capsized off Thatcher Rock and two people were clinging to it. At 10.28 the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight south-easterly breeze and slight sea. The tide was ebbing. The two people were taken on board the inshore rescue boat and with the yacht in tow she proceeded to Torquay. The inshore rescue boat returned to her station at 11.40..