FISHING VESSEL ESCORTED TO SAFETY Plymouth, Devon. At 10.30 a.m. on Sunday the 7th of July, 1963, the Queen's Harbour Master informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the police reporting that the fishing vessel Barbican with two men on board had broken down between Shagstone and Mewstone. There was a light north-westerly wind and a slight sea. It was three hours after high water.

The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched at 10.47. The coxswain accurately estimated the posi- tion of the casualty, making allowances for the wind and tide, and came up with the Barbican, which was then being towed by a small fishing vessel, a mile and a half south of Shagstone. The two vessels were escorted safely into Sutton harbour and the life-boat returned to her station at 12.35 in the morning..