Salcombe, South Devon. At 10.14 p.m. on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flag was being waved from a motor boat that was drifting south in Starehole Bay. At 10.25 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the A station, slipped her moorings and proceeded in a fresh north-easterly breeze and a calm sea. It was low water. The lifeboat reached the motor boat Osprey and learnt from the two occupants that the engine was out of action through striking a submerged object which bent the propeller shaft. The life-boat towed the motor-boat to Salcombe harbour, where she arrived at 11.45 p.m..