SAW RED FLARE At ii.10 p.m. on lyth May, 1964, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning a red flare five to six miles off Portwrinkle.

Twenty-two minutes later the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched at high water with the bowman in command. Searching in a fresh south-easterly wind and slight sea, she found the motor yacht Beiren about six miles north-west by west of Rame Head, bound for Looe with a man, a woman and two children on board. The yacht had broken down so the life-boat towed her to Millbay Docks and arrived back at her station at 3.45 a.m..