Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was two hours after low water.

While making for the capsized yacht Gavotte II of Portsmouth her crew learnt that a boy had been lost overboard from a trimaran, and the life-boat began an immediate search.

Shortly afterwards it was learnt that the missing boy had reached shore safely, and the life-boat then went to the help of the yacht which was dismasted. There were two people on board. One of them, a woman whowas ill, and who was taken aboard the life-boat. A member of the life-boat crew was put aboard the yacht to help the owner, and the life-boat stood by for two hours and a half until there was enough water to tow the yacht into Salcombe. The life-boat returned to her station at 6 o'clock..