Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare slipped her moorings at ten o'clock on the ebbing tide in a gentle north- westerly breeze. A message was passed to her that one boy had reached shore safely, but the second boy was still missing. The search was continued for two hours. The canoe with paddles and seats was recovered, but there was no trace of the second boy. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.30 and landed the canoe..