USED PARACHUTE FLARE Plymouth, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man in a cabin cruiser off Renney rocks was flashing a light and calling for help. It was half an hour after flood tide; there was a moderate sea with fresh west-northwesterly winds. At 11.33 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out and, using a parachute flare, found the cabin cruiser Nimrod II. There were two adults and three small children on board.

Two members of the life-boat crew boarded her and found that both the cruiser's engines had failed, causing the boat to drift helplessly. She was taken in tow and berthed in Millbay docks at 2.10 a.m., and the life-boat returned to her station at 2.20.

The owner made a gift to the life-boat crew..