Padstow, Cornwall - At 8.47 a.m. on 2yth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune had engine trouble and was in difficulties twenty-five miles west of Trevose Head. There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a slight sea.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick proceeded at 9.5 and after carrying out a search in conjunction with a Shaddeton aircraft came up with the yacht 30 miles west of the original position. The Ranger of Lune was in a sinking condition, and it was decided to tow her back to Padstow. From 10 o'clock that evening until 4 o'clock the next morning the wind freshened from the east-north-east, greatly reducing the speed of the tow, but after a service of almost twenty-two hours' duration the life-boat arrived back at her station at 6.30 a.m..