Douglas, Isle of Man - At 12.37 p.m.

on 13th August, 1968, the coastguard reported that a rubber dinghy, with two people on board, was adrift one mile east of Cornan beach. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was launched at 1 o'clock in a fresh north westerly wind and a choppy sea. The life-boat came up with the dinghy at 2.30 and the crew were taken aboard. The dinghy was stowed on deck, and the life-boat returned to her station at 3.45..