On the 24th April signals of distress were shown by the yawl Oneida, of Sennen Cove, which had left Padstow in the morning intending to pick up her nets which she had left in the bay on the previous evening. When she started, the wind was blowing strongly from the S.W., but in the afternoon it increased to a galewith a heavy ground sea, and the crew, finding they could not return to Padstow, brought up their boat under the land with two anchors; as they did not hold, the men signalled for assistance.

The Life-boat Arab put off at 3.15 P.M., and on reaching the vessel found that her crew of three men were thoroughly exhausted. The yawl was taken in tow and was brought into the harbour at 4.30..