Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.50 a.m.

on gth June, 1967, it was felt that two people who had put out in a canoe from Weymouth beach might be in difficulties.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 1.35 in a light north easterly wind and a calm sea. The tide was ebbing. The canoe was found abandoned at Newton's Cove and was recovered by the police while the life-boat crew fired parachute flares to illuminate the scene.

The police believed that the canoe's crew had got safely ashore and the search was called off at 2.50. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 3.10..