Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles west-north-west of Plymouth Point. At 10.8 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out in a moderate swell. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and a flood tide.

A Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launch from Mount Batten found the trawler south-south-west of Polperro and took her in tow. The life-boat escorted both vessels until they were in Plymouth Sound and returned to her moorings at two o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s..