At 12.48 p.m. on 26th June, 1966, information was received that an elderly woman had fallen over Arrowan cliff, four miles west of Coverack, and the assistance of the life-boat was required as the position could not be approached from the shore. A nursing sister went aboard the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham, which was launched with a dinghy in tow at 12.56 in a light westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was high water. When the life-boat reached the position given, the boarding boat was sent in, manned by three crew members and the sister. Assisted by the coastguard they took the casualty off and transferred her to the life-boat. She was then winched into a helicopter and taken to Truro hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.25..