Plymouth, Devon - At 12.20 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a large open fishing boat was reported to be wallowing heavily and making no progress about three quarters of a mile off the fog station. No distress signals had been seen but there was a danger of her being carried on to the breakwater. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her moorings at 12.45 in a gale force south south easterly wind and a moderate sea. She came up with the crabber Sunlit Waters of Teignmouth off Picklecombe. A fleet tender was standing by. The crabber had just got under way, so the life-boat escorted her into port, returning to her station at 2.15..