St. Ives, Cornwall. At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the skiff Our John, with one man on board, had been reported drifting westward on the ebb tide.

There were light variable airs and a smooth sea. At 10.23 the life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child put out. A French crabber weighed anchor and followed astern of the life- boat, helping to search for the skiff.

When the life-boat was inshore of the crabber the skiff was seen in the light of flares dropped from aircraft. The French crabber reached the skiff first, rescued the man on board and took the skiff in tow. The life-boat and the crabber then returned to St. Ives Bay, where the man was transferred to the life-boat and landed. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.30..