INSHORE RESCUE BOAT ON SERVICE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 4.3 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that a man was being swept out to sea at Watergate Bay twenty two and a half miles north-east of St. Ives Head. A helicopter was flying to the area. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was attending the Life-saving Conference and National Surf Life-saving Championships at Porthmeor Beach.

The honorary secretary informed Land's End radio of the situation and a "flash and sound" warning was fired so that the life-boat would contact the radio station. This procedure was successfully carried out at 4.17 and the life-boat and inshore rescue boat proceeded to the area. At 4.55 the inshore rescue boat with the district inspector on board returned short of fuel and with broken side battens. The inspector was transferred to the life-boat, but less than an hour later the honorary secretary was informed that further search was unnecessary and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.50. The weather had been bright and clear throughout the afternoon with a gentle breeze from the west-south-west and moderate seas..