Torbay, South Devon - At 10.45 p.m.

on 23rd November, 1969, information was received that the m.f.v.

Scaldis was in difficulties in Lyme bay. At 11.10 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings in a gale force east north easterly wind with a rough sea. It was low water. She came up with the fishing vessel off the Star of India buoy at 2.30 a.m. on 24th November.

Her engine had broken down. The vessel, with her crew of four, was taken in tow to Brixham. The lifeboat returned to her station at 8 o'clock..