Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the keeper of theTrevose Head lighthouse had reported a capsized boat with someone clinging to her five hundred yards off the lighthouse.

The no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chad- wick was launched at 1.50 in a gentle north-westerly breeze with a slight sea.

It was one hour after high water. The life-boat took the man on board and towed the dinghy into harbour, return- ing to her station at 4.5. A second man, who had been in the dinghy fishing, was helped ashore by the lighthouse keeper. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..