NEAR PORT ISAAC Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.55 p.m.

on i6th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that three Port Isaac fishing boats were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The honorary secretary was informed and it was agreed to launch the life-boat to escort and stand by the fishing boats, which would be unable to enter the harbour because of the state of the tide. There was a near gale from the north-west with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick set out at i.io and shortly after leaving harbour the coastguard informed the coxswain by radio telephone that two of the boats had reached harbour. A search was made and the third fishing boat Dawn was found three miles north of Port Isaac coastguard station. The Dawn was escorted safely into Port Isaac harbour and the life-boat returned to her station at 3.20..