Appledore, Devon - At 10.35 a-mon 25th June, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy he had been watching for about half an hour had capsized off North Tail.

The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker slipped her moorings at 10.46 in a fresh south easterly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the dinghy and occupant ashore. He refused a line, so the life-boat stood by until he had safely negotiated the broken water. She returned to her station at 11.55..