Poole, Dorset - At 2.5 p.m. on 3rd November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties two miles east by south of Bournemouth pier. The life-boat crew were asked to stand by. At 3.30, as the yacht was making no headway against the gale force wind, the lifeboat George Elmy, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat came up with the yacht Tilaer, with two people on board, three miles south of Southbourne.

Her sails were blown out. She was taken in tow to Poole, and the lifeboat returned to her station at 6.30..