Plymouth, Devon - At 5.44 a.m. on 16th September, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British vessel Chartsman was standing by the yacht Khojak 13 miles off Eddystone lighthouse.

The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her moorings at 6 o'clock in a north westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing.

At 7.43 she came up with the yacht which was sheltering in the lee of the Chartsman in heavy seas. The yacht was taken in tow to Plymouth, and the life-boat returned to her station at 1 p.m..