Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy point and had fired red flares. The life-boat City of Edinburgh, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 8.47 in a moderate north westerly wind with a corresponding sea. It was high water. As communications were difficult the Ilfracombe coastguard asked for the Ilfracombe life-boat Lloyd's II and she was launched at 9 o'clock, arriving in the area soon after theCity of Edinburgh. A helicopter reported that the cabin cruiser's crew did not wish to be lifted off so it stayed with the Sea Sweeper until the City of Edinburgh came up. The lifeboat towed the cabin cruiser into Appledore, which was reached at 11 o'clock. The Appledore life-boat returned to her station at 11.7..