Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low water. The life-boat came up with the motor boat Francis Drake with three people on board. She was drifting towards the rocks in the bay. The life-boat took her in tow to the harbour, and returned to her station at 1.35..