Plymouth, Devon. At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that some swimmers were in difficulties near the Mewstone islet on the eastern side of the entrance to the harbour. The life-boat Thomas Fore- head and Mary Rowse put out at 10.39, with her boarding boat in tow, in a light easterly breeze and a calm sea.

The tide was half ebb. The Mewstone was shrouded by mist, but the boarding boat was sent close inshore to make a search. A boy and a girl were found in an exhausted condition and taken off a low rock. Another couple were also taken off. The four people were trans- ferred to the life-boat, where they were wrapped in blankets and given hot soup.

They were landed at Millbay dock, where an ambulance was waiting, and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 12.49. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s..