Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.

on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel leaving two women on the yacht. Owing to the heavy swell the two men could not reboard her and the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 12.20 in a moderate southerly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat came up with the yacht Apeloiter 20 yards off shore in a very heavy swell and the two women were embarked. After the bowman and a crew member were put aboard a tow line waspassed. The anchor was slipped and the life-boat took the yacht in tow to Weymouth harbour. The tow was successfully accomplished despite the strong ebb tide and southerly wind. The lifeboat returned to her station at 5.15..