Coverack, Cornwall - At 10.15 P-mon 12th June, 1966, an international distress signal was reported about two and a half miles south east of Coverack.

There was a moderate southerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 10.25 on a flooding tide and after a short search found the motor boat Sheila with her engine broken down. Her crew of two were not feeling well and were transferred to the life-boat. The motor-boat was towed back to Coverack by the life-boat, which reached her station at 11.20..