CRASHED INTO SEA At 9.55 a.m. on 26th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Royal Naval authorities at Portland had asked the life-boat to help in searching for a naval aircraft believed to have crashed into the sea west of the station. At 10.3 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out into a choppy sea and gentle south-westerly breeze to search for survivors.

It was high water. The life-boat, together with the Exmouth life-boat and aircraft, searched unsuccessfully for several hours. At 5.10 p.m. the life-boat returned to her station..