Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. At 1.20 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse proceeded, with the second coxswain in command, to the casualty and came up with her at 2.15. The motor boat's engine had broken down. Her two occupants were transferred to the life-boat and given hot drinks. The life-boat towed the casualty to Plymouth, where the two people were landed.

The two men who were rescued from the motor boat sent a letter of thanks to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, and made a donation to the Institution's funds..