Plymouth, Devon. At 10.13 p.m.

on 16th July, 1965, Breakwater Fort reported seeing a small boat flashing distress signals south of Mewstone. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 10.29 i° a light north-north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was one and a half hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the cabin cruiser Wanderlust about two miles south of Gara Point.

There -were three men on board who had been fishing off Stoke, but when starting their engine to return home their gearbox had failed and they found themselves drifting. The Wanderlust was taken in tow to Stonehouse Pool and the life-boat reached her station at i.io a.m..