At 2.40 p.m. on 13th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the acting honorary secretary that a motor boat had fired flares three miles west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.47 in a fresh south easterly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor boat Chindwyn V with three people on board. Her engine had failed because of water in the fuel system. The life-boat took the Chindwyn V in tow to Weymouth which was reached at 5.45. The owners made a donation to the Institution's funds..