CRIES FOR HELP Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.21 p.m.

on iyth September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard in the water off the Prince of Wales pier. There was a gale from the west-south-west with a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpot, on temporary duty at the station, went out at 9.40. The coastguard set up a searchlight on the pier to illuminate the area.

The life-boat closed a yacht that was observed flashing a light and the coxswain learnt that two people had been seen boarding the tug St. Mawes. On coming up with the tug, which had no crew on board, the coxswain found two young people on her deck. Their rubber dinghy had capsized when they were returning to their yacht and they had swum to the tug. The youngsters were landed and conveyed to hospital by ambulance for a check-up. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.50 p.m..