Weymouth, Dorset - At 5.7 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties one mile south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 5.30. There was a fresh north easterly breeze with a corresponding sea. It was low water.

At 6.20 the life-boat came up with the auxiliary yacht Phan Khu of London with five people on board. Her engine had failed and she had a broken rudder. A line was passed and she was taken in tow to Weymouth. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30..