Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.

on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in a fresh north easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Lady Loren with four people on board, four and a half miles south east of Weymouth.

He engine had broken down. The life-boat took the yacht in tow, intending to resume the search for the missing dinghy after the yacht had been safely moored. At 12.46 a.m. it was reported that the dinghy had come ashore at the pier bandstand and that the children were safe.

The yacht was towed to moorings at Weymouth and the life-boat returned to her station at 1.30. The owners of the yacht made a gift to the life-boat crew..