Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.14 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Tonga was in difficulties with engine trouble and was drifting 17^ miles south south west of Portland Bill. After ascertaining that a tow could not be arranged the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 9.55. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the Tonga with three people on board and took her in tow. She returned to her moorings at 5.30 a.m..