Falmouth, Cornwall. At 3.10 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the dock police informed the honorary secretary that two officers had seen red flares being fired in Falmouth harbour.

At 3.45 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out at high water in a southerly gale and a rough sea. She found the yacht Otter of Helford with a crew of three. The yacht's engines had broken down, and the life-boat took her in tow, reaching her station at 5.3. Rewards to the crew, £7..