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ENGINE TROUBLE Clovelly, Devon. At 7.15 p.m. on i4th July, 1965, the police reported that a boat had broken down one mile off shore from Higher Sharpnose, about eight miles south of Hartland Point. The life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was launched at 7.25 in a light westerly breeze and a ground swell. It was high water. At nine o'clock the life-boat arrived off Higher Sharpnose and found the motor yacht Calypso anchored. Two of her crew had rowed ashore hi a dinghy to summon help but their dinghy had been damaged and the two men were unable to return to the yacht. Two members of the life-boat crew were put aboard the Calypso and succeeded in starting the engine. Accompanied by the life-boat the yacht proceeded to Clovelly, arriving at about 1.15 a.m..