Weymouth, Dorset-At 11.20 a.m.

on 5th June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Cilla with a one-man crew had broken down nine miles from Portland Bill. The lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.50. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the Cilia four miles from Portland Bill and took her in tow to Weymouth.

She returned to the station at 2.50..