Torbay, South Devon - At 2.30 p.m.on 18th October, 1969, information was received that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Babbacombe.

The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 2.50 in a fresh east by northerly wind. It was three hours after high water.

At 3.48 she came up with the cabin cruiser El Amira with a crew of three.

She had engine trouble and was drifting shorewards. The life-boat took her in tow to Brixham, returning to her station at 5.14..