TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine minutes later the lifeboat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put to sea. There was a light west-southwest breeze, the sea was choppy, and the tide was flooding. The life-beat made a search and found a Kestrel-type dinghy three-quarters of a mile west of Nare Head. She had only just capsized and was not the casualty originally reported, but the life-boat helped the crew to get on board her, and a motor launch took the dinghy in tow. The life-boat searched for the other dinghy and found her abandoned about a quarter of a mile east of Nare Head. Her crew of four were on the rocks at the foot of a cliff.

The life-boat stood by until they reached the cliff top and then took their dinghy on board and returned to her station, arriving at 2.30..