Plymouth, South Devon. At 7.30 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the police at Plympton reported that a man at Wembury Point had seen a small yacht capsize off Gara Point. At 7.47 the life-boat Lloyds, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a fresh south-easterly breeze.

It was half-an-hour after high water. She found the yacht Popsy of Plymouth with no one aboard and carried out a search for her crew of three until it was learnt that they had been rescued by a motor launch. The life-boat returned to her station with the Popsy in tow arriving at 9.50 p.m. The owner of the yacht made a donation to RNLI funds and a gift to the life-boat crew..