HUNGRY BUT FIT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.10 a.m. on 2Oth February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cutter had been moored off Tregonhawke cliff for three days and that they were going to investigate. Half an hour later the position of the boat was confirmed. There was a fresh east-north-easterly breeze with a moderate sea, and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse set out at 9.43 a.m.

and reached the cutter at 10.40. The two men on board reported they were fit but had run out of food, and while on passage from Falmouth to Dartmouth strong easterly winds had prevented them from rounding Rame Head. They were given hot soup and biscuits and, with two of the life-boat crew on board, the casualty was towed safely into Millbay Docks. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 12.55 P-m..