CUT OFF BY TIDE At 5.52 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's mechanic that the police had reported two people cut off by the tide on Renney rocks. There was a moderate west-northwesterly breeze with a heavy swell. It was three hours before high water. At 6.3 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse made for Renney rocks with the boarding boat in tow. She reached the rocks at 6.23. The boarding boat was used to take the two people from the rocks to the life-boat, which returned to her station at 7.50..