Padstow, Cornwall - At 9.28 p.m. on ist April, 1967, red flares were reportedat a position eight miles north of Killan Head. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick proceeded at 10 o'clock in a strong south westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was high water. She arrived at the position at 11.30 and found the motor vessel Vigilante with engine trouble and a sick woman on board. The Vigilante was in the tow of the motor vessel Chester Brook to Padstow. The life-boat escorted both vessels and on arrival at Padstow at 2.20 a.m. a doctor was waiting to give medical aid to the sick woman. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 3 o'clock on 2nd April, 1967..