FLARES OFF LIZARD The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall.

At 10.54 P-m- on 3fd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares were burning off the Lizard. As a fishing vessel was known to be on passage from Mousehole to Falmouth the life-boat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33} was launched. There was a strong south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The lifeboat found the fishing vessel Tomboy with one man on board and took her in tow to Falmouth, returning to her station at 8.15 the following morning..