Salcombe, Devon. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people in a canoe were stranded on the rocks at Steeple Cove near Bolt Head. At 3.35 on the ebbing tide the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched with a dinghy in tow. There was a moderate easterly breeze with a smooth sea. The life-boat made for the cove, where a man and his wife were found on the rocks with their half-submerged canoe close by. The two people were picked up by the dinghy and transferred to the life-boat, which then returned to Sal- combe with the damaged canoe in tow, arriving at 5.30..