At 10.34 p.m. on 19th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted three to four miles south south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 10.55.

It was two hours after low water.

She came up with the yacht Quest Levant, with two people on board, at midnight. The yacht's engine hadbroken down. A member of the life-boat's crew was put aboard the yacht and she was taken in tow to Weymouth. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.30 a.m. on 20th July. The owner made a donation to the Institution's funds and a gift to the life-boat crew..