Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a strong south westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. When the life-boat arrived she found that the casualty had been holed. A line was passed to the yacht Pigganin with two people on board, and she was taken in tow.

The motor vessel Malasin, which had been standing by, then proceeded on her voyage. The tow was reduced to half speed and on one occasion the life-boat filled with water. The yacht's samson post was pulled out and the tow line had to be secured to her mast. The yacht was towed into Poole harbour, where she was moored alongside the quay, and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.8 p.m..