ALONE IN YACHT At 12.58 p.m. on 2ist September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht with one man aboard was reported to be in distress 35 miles south-east of Lizard lighthouse, and was asking for a tow to Penzance. There was a slight sea with a gentle to moderate south-westerly breeze. At 3 p.m. the life-boat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) was launched, the tide being at two hours flood. The honorary secretary requested helicopter assistance to find the yacht, the Cap Lizard from Barbados, which had left the company of a French trawler in an effort to reach Penzance. At 5.26 one of two helicopters found the Cap Lizard and guided the life-boat to her. A member of the helicopter's crew attended the exhausted owner until the arrival of the life-boat.

At 7 p.m. the life-boat reached the disabled yacht, and two members of the life-boat's crew boarded her to connect a tow rope to the 3O-ton yacht. The tow to Falmouth was accomplished with some difficulty and the yacht was safely berthed at 1.45 a.m. The life-boat put out for her station and reached it at 6 a.m..