SAVED YACHTSMAN ADDRESSES CROWD OF ONLOOKERS Falmouth, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had capsized and sunk off Pendennis Point and that three men had been thrown into the sea. The reserve life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, launched at 2.5 p.m. on a flood tide. The weather was squally with a fresh wind from the north-west. In the meantime the survivors had clung to the gunwales of a small rowing boat, which had come to their rescue before being embarked in the coaster Yewpark, which was putting to sea. At 2.30 they were transferred to the life-boat. It was then noticed that the rowing boat was in difficulties and at 2.50 it was taken on board the life-boat with its three young occupants, They were landed on Gyllynyvase beach.

While they were being landed one of the men who had been rescued from the yacht took the life-boat's loud hailer and made an impromptu speech to the large crowd which had watched the rescue. The man, the Penzance Borough Surveyor, ended his speech with remarks that the Institution should be proud of the service they had rendered. These remarks drew an ovation from the crowd. The three men were later landed at St. Mawes and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.55 p.m..