Clovelly, Devon. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 26th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing boat Lyn II was reported missing.

Later it was learned that she had put in to Lundy for petrol. At two o'clock the coastguard reported that the fishing boat could be seen off Hartland Point and that someone on board was waving a red duster. It was low water when the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was launched in a strong south-easterly wind and a moderate sea. When she reached the fishing boat, it was found that the boat had again run out of petrol. Two men and two women were taken on board the life-boat, which towed the fishing-boat to Clovelly, arriving at 4.30. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8..