Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 7.37. It was low water. She came up with the motor boat Tap, with a crew of two, at 8.15 anchored two miles south by west of Grove point. Her engine had failed. The life-boat took her crew aboard and towed the motor boat to Weymouth harbour, returning to her station at 9.30. A donation was made to the Institution's funds and a gift to the life-boat crew..