DAMAGED FUEL-PIPE Exmouth, Devon. At 9.10 p.m. on 9th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen south of Straight Point. There was a gentle west-north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water and at 9.32 the life-boat Michael Stephens set out. Two men had gone to the assistance of the cabin cruiser Tarka, which had fired the flare and which had a broken fuel-pipe. They took the Tarka in tow, and both boats were escorted back to the docks by the life-boat, which returned to her station at 10.30.

The owner of the cabin cruiser made a gift to the life-boat crew..