Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Polruan in- formed the honorary secretary that the coastguard at Charlestown had gone to- help a young woman who had been cut off by the tide about three hundred-yards west of Charlestown. Five minutes later the police reported that it had been found impossible to haul the girl up the cliffside and asked if the life-boat would put out to rescue her.

At 5.32 the life-boat Deneys Reitz left her moorings in a rough sea. There was a moderate easterly wind and it was high water. The life-boat reached the position, and after a line had been fired ashore by Schermuly pistol, the .assistant motor mechanic swam ashore to make the line fast to a rock. The girl and a coastguardsman who had gone to help her were taken off by breeches buoy and landed at Fowey at 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £7 2s. 6d.