FISHING KETCH AGROUND At 4.17 p.m. the following day, the Queen's harbourmaster told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the breakwater near the lighthouse. As the tide was due to ebb for i^- hours and there was a fresh north-westerly wind, it was clear that the yacht would need help.

At 4.30 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out into a slight sea and 12 minutes later reached the fishing k;tch Hopeful, which had seven people aboard. The ketch was held firmly in a smooth stretch of water with rocks on either side. All seven people were taken off by the life-boat. Later the owner of the ketch returned to his boat with two men while the life-boat stood by until there was sufficient water to refloat her.

The ketch was then towed to Cawsand, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.30..