BODIES FOUND At fifteen minutes past midnight on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that 315 foot outboard motor boat, known asa"Cruisette", had left the River Teign at 10.30 a.m.

the previous day with three men bound for a fishing expedition in the Sandy Bay area, and suggested that the life-boat should make a search at dawn. About 5.10 the coastguard reported that the boat had not returned and at 5.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched.

She searched widely in a moderate northwesterly wind, moderate sea and ebbing tide. A helicopter also searched. The lifeboat found the boat at 10.15 broken down and waterlogged five miles south of Beer Head and directed the helicopter to it.

The helicopter picked up two bodies and transferred them to the life-boat which, with the helicopter, then searched for the third body. Nothing was found and the life-boat took the boat in tow, handed it over to another boat which had put out from Sidmouth, and landed the two bodies at Exmouth at 2.35 p.m..