Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.

The life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare left her moorings at 11.15 in a moderate to fresh westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was two hours before low water. She found the motor launch Queen of Falmouth, with two men on board. Her engine had broken down while on passage from Falmouth to Mousehole. The life-boat took the launch in tow and berthed her at Customs House Quay, Falmouth. She returned to her station at 12.10 p.m..