TOW FOR YACHT EN FOG The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 2.36 on the morning of the 15th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was stationary about one mile east of the life-boat station. She had no engine and thick fog was reported to the eastward.

Further information revealed that her crew had lost their bearings. At 3.14 the life-boat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) was launched in a light north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was an hour and a half before high water and there were fog banks.

The yacht had already drifted near the cliff and her crew of three were firing distress signals. The life-boat went alongside the yacht Gweneth of Falmouth and took her in tow to moorings at Kilcobben Cove, which was reached at 4.30. The crew of the yacht made a gift to the life-boat crew..